Harley Flanders

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Harley Flanders (born September 13, 1925 , † July 26, 2013 ) was an American mathematician , known as the author of several textbooks.

Flanders studied at the University of Chicago , where he received his master’s degree in 1947 and his doctorate in 1949 under Otto Franz Georg Schilling and André Weil (Unification of Class Field Theory). He was then at Caltech (as a Bateman Fellow), at the University of Berkeley and from 1960 professor at Purdue University . From 1970 to 1977 he was at Tel Aviv University . 1977 to 1978 he was visiting professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology , 1978 to 1985 visiting scholar at Florida Atlantic University , 1985 to 1997 and from 2000 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , 1997 to 2000 at the University of North Florida and at the same time at the Jacksonville State University (as Distinguished Mathematician in Residence), both in Jacksonville, Florida .

Flanders initially dealt with algebra and algebraic number theory, then with linear algebra, differential forms , differential geometry, the mathematical theory of electrical networks and scientific computing . He was also a software developer and from 1975 wrote the educational analysis software MicroCalc.

From 1969 to 1973 he was editor of the American Mathematical Monthly . In 1969 he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award (for A proof of Minkowski's inequality for convex curves , Amer. Math. Monthly, Vol. 75, 1968, pp. 581-593).

He edited Charles Loewner's Lectures on Steady Groups with Murray H. Protter .

Fonts

  • Differential forms with applications to the physical sciences , Academic Press 1963, Dover 1989
  • Differential Forms , in SS Chern (Editor) Studies in Global Geometry and Analysis , Mathematical Association of America, 1967, revised 1989
  • Development of an extended exterior differential calculus , Transactions American Mathematical Society, Vol. 75, 1953, pp. 311-326
  • with Justin R. Price: Algebra , Academic Press 1975, Saunders College Publ. 1981
  • with Price: Trigonometry , Academic Press 1975, 2nd edition Saunders College Publications 1982
  • the same: Algebra and Trigonometry , Academic Press 1975, Saunders College Publ. 1981
  • same: College Algebra , Saunders College Publ., 1982
  • same: Precalculus Mathematics , Saunders College Publ. 1981
  • same: Elementary Functions and analytic geometry , Academic Press 1973
  • same: Introductory College Mathematics: with Linear Algebra and Finite Mathematics , Academic Press 1973
  • the same: Calculus with analytic geometry , Academic Press 1978
  • same, Robert Korfhage: First course in calculus with analytic geometry , Academic Press 1973
  • same, Robert Korfhage: Calculus , Academic Press 1970
  • same, Korfhage: A second course in Calculus , Academic Press 1974
  • Calculus , Freeman 1985
  • Single Variable Calculus , Freeman 1985
  • Calculus: a Lab Course with MicroCalc , Springer 1996
  • Scientific Pascal , Reston Publ. Corp. 1984, 2nd edition, Birkhäuser 1996

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ito (editor) Encyclopedic dictionary of Mathematics , authors' register
personal data
SURNAME Flanders, Harley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1925
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2013