John H. Curtiss
John Hamilton Curtiss (born December 23, 1909 , † August 13, 1977 in Port Angeles , Washington ) was an American mathematician .
His father David Raymond Curtiss (1878-1953) was a mathematics professor at Northwestern University . Curtiss graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in 1930 with top grades, from the University of Iowa with a master's degree in statistics from HL Rietz, and from Harvard University , where he received his doctorate in 1935 with Joseph Leonard Walsh (Interpolation in Transforms of the Roots of Unity and the Jacobi Interpolation Series on the Lemniscate of Convergence). He was then an instructor in mathematics at Johns Hopkins University and taught from 1936 at Cornell University . From 1943 to 1946 he was Lieutenant Commander in the Bureau of Ships of the US Navy , responsible for quality control.
In 1946 he became assistant to the physicist and director of the National Bureau of Standards , Edward Condon , and headed there from 1947 to 1953 the Department of Applied Mathematics (National Applied Mathematics Laboratories, later Applied Mathematics Division). During this time he made a significant contribution to the development of an electronic computer infrastructure (such as the SEAC ) and the promotion of numerical mathematics required for the use of computers (at the NBS, where he was initially responsible for statistics, the Mathematical Tables Project was also located) . In 1953/54 he spent a year at the Courant Institute . From 1954 to 1959 he was Executive Director of the American Mathematical Society .
From 1959 to 1977 he was a math professor at the University of Miami at Coral Gables. There he mainly dealt with complex approximation theory. In the early 1950s he dealt with statistics (especially Monte Carlo methods).
In 1952 he was visiting professor at Harvard University .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John H. Curtiss in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Curtiss, John H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Curtiss, John Hamilton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1909 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1977 |
| Place of death | Port Angeles , Washington |