James Harkness
James Harkness (* 1864 in Derby (Derbyshire) , England , † December 1923 ) was a Canadian mathematician.
Live and act
Harkness attended Trinity College in Cambridge and then went to the United States. He was from 1888 to 1903 at Bryn Mawr College , from 1896 as a mathematics professor. From 1903 he was a professor of pure mathematics at McGill University in Montreal .
He was a member of the London Mathematical Society , the Royal Society of Canada (from 1908) and the American Mathematical Society , whose Vice-President he was temporarily and whose Transactions he edited.
Harkness dealt with function theory, wrote two textbooks about it with Frank Morley (a mathematics professor at Haverford College near Bryn Mawr who had also studied at Cambridge) and worked with Robert Fricke and Wilhelm Wirtinger on the article Elliptic Functions in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences .
Fonts
- with Frank Morley A treatise on the theory of functions , New York, MacMillan 1893
- with Frank Morley Introduction to the theory of analytic functions , 1898
swell
- Alumni Cantabrigienses , Part II, III, p. 245; on-line
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| SURNAME | Harkness, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1864 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Derby (Derbyshire) , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1923 |