James Edward Oliver

James Edward Oliver (born July 27, 1829 in Portland , Maine , † March 27, 1895 ) was an American mathematician .

Oliver studied at Harvard College from 1846 and graduated in 1849. From 1850 he worked for the newly founded American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac in Cambridge , Massachusetts . In 1870 he was appointed professor of mathematics at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York , where he lectured on a wide variety of mathematical fields and presented pioneering work on the relationship between probability theory and economics . He was also the co-author of several textbooks, including on algebra and trigonometry .

In 1861 Oliver was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1872 to the National Academy of Sciences , 1873 to the American Philosophical Society, and 1876 to the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Oliver had been married to Sara Theresa Van Patten since 1888. In 1889/90 he spent 14 months in Europe, mainly with Arthur Cayley in Cambridge and Felix Klein in Göttingen . In early 1895, Oliver fell seriously ill and died after ten weeks of illness. His grave is in Pine Grove Cemetery in Lynn , Massachusetts .

literature

• GW Hill: James Edward Oliver 1829-1895 . In: National Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Biograpic Memoirs . 1896, p. 57–74 (English, nasonline.org [PDF; 838 kB ]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter O. (PDF; 289 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 19, 2018 . 
2. ↑ James Oliver. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed December 19, 2018 . 
3. ↑ James E. Oliver. In: amphilsoc.org. American Philosophical Society , accessed December 19, 2018 . 
4. ↑ James Edward Oliver in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved December 19, 2018.