John Irwin Hutchinson

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John Irwin Hutchinson (born April 12, 1867 in Bangor (Maine) , † December 1, 1935 ) was an American mathematician who dealt with analysis.

Hutchinson studied at Bates College with a bachelor's degree in 1889, Clark University (1890 to 1892) under Oskar Bolza , which he followed in 1892 to the University of Chicago , where he received his doctorate from Bolza in 1896 ( On the Reduction of Hyperelliptic Functions ( p = 2) to Elliptic Functions by a Transformation of the Second Degree ). He was the first graduate student in mathematics at the University of Chicago. In 1894 he became an instructor, in 1903 assistant professor and in 1910 professor of mathematics at Cornell University .

In the 1935 Cornell University obituary, two results were highlighted by Hutchinson: the introduction of the isometric circle in the theory of automorphic functions (and its use to determine the fundamental domain) and the discovery of the infinite discontinuous set of birational transformations of the sorrow surface (through application the theory of theta functions on surfaces of sorrow). In 1911 he suffered a nervous breakdown, which interrupted his mathematical productivity for a while. Then he dealt with analytical number theory and the theory of the Riemann zeta function . His results in this area are presented in Edward Charles Titchmarsh's monograph on the zeta function.

He was Assistant Editor of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society from its inception in 1900 to 1915. In 1904, he gave one of the main lectures at the Mathematicians' Congress on the occasion of the World's Fair in St. Louis.

He had wide-ranging interests in addition to mathematics, including growing plants and playing the piano. In 1896 he married Genevra Barrett.

Fonts

  • with Virgil Snyder: Differential and Integral Calculus, New York: American Book Company 1902
  • with Virgil Snyder: Elementary Textbook on the Calculus, New York: American Book Company 1912
  • On the roots of the Riemann zeta function , Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 27, 1925, pp. 49-60, online
  • A method for constructing the fundamental region of a discontinuous group of linear transformations , Trans. AMS, 8, 1907, 261-269, online
  • On some birational transformations of the Kummer surface into itself , Bulletin AMS, 7, 1901, pp. 211-217, online

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Irwin Hutchinson in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Hutchinson, John Irwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Bangor (Maine)
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1935