Harry Coonce

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Harry Bernard Coonce (* 1939 ) is an American mathematician and initiator and founder of the online database Mathematics Genealogy Project .

Life

Coonce received his Ph.D. in 1969 from the University of Delaware with the thesis A Variational Method for Functions of Bounded Boundary Rotation . Until his retirement he was a professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato .

In 1996 he started the Mathematics Genealogy Project, in which almost 250,000 (as of August 2019) scientific family trees of mathematicians and scientists working in related fields ( theoretical physics ) are recorded. The online database is currently operated by North Dakota State University .

literature

  • Allyn Jackson: A labor of love: The Mathematics Genealogy Project . In: Notices of the American Mathematical Society . tape 54 , no. 8 , 2007, p. 1002–1003 ( online [PDF; accessed August 14, 2019]).
  • Colm Mulcahy: The Mathematics Genealogy Project comes of age at twenty-one . In: Notices of the American Mathematical Society . tape 64 , no. 5 , 2017, p. 466-470 ( online [PDF; accessed August 14, 2019]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Coonce in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ^ Harry B. Coonce: Computer Science and the Mathematics Genealogy Project . In: ACM SIGACT News . tape 35 , no. 4 , 2004, p. 117 , doi : 10.1145 / 1054916.1054918 .
personal data
SURNAME Coonce, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coonce, Harry Bernard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1939