John Charles Fields
John Charles Fields (born May 14, 1863 in Hamilton (Ontario) , † August 9, 1932 in Toronto ) was a Canadian mathematician . He was the initiator of the Fields Medal named after him , one of the highest awards mathematicians can receive.
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John Charles Fields was the son of a merchant who owned a leather goods store in Hamilton. The father died when Fields was eleven years old. Fields attended the Hamilton Collegiate Institute, where he distinguished himself as an excellent student. He graduated in 1880 and received several awards. Fields went on to the University of Toronto in 1880 to study mathematics.
Fields went to the United States to do a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . He taught there for two years before working as a lecturer in mathematics at Allegheny College . After three years, Fields moved to Europe to do research in Berlin , Göttingen and Paris with the greatest mathematicians of his time. Fields met Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs , Kurt Hensel , Hermann Amandus Schwarz , Karl Weierstrass , Felix Klein , Ferdinand Georg Frobenius and Max Planck . The stay in Europe also led to a close lifelong friendship with Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler . During this time he began numerous publications on his main research area, algebraic functions .
1913 Fields was accepted as a member (" Fellow ") in the Royal Society . Since December 1924 he was a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .
supporting documents
- ^ Entry on Fields, John Charles (1863–1932) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : John Charles Fields. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- John Charles Fields Biography Fields Institute website
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| SURNAME | Fields, John Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamilton (Ontario) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1932 |
| Place of death | Toronto |