Percey F. Smith

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Percey Franklyn Smith (born August 21, 1867 in Nyack , † 1956 ) was an American mathematician and professor at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University .

He studied mathematics at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, where he completed the regular course in 1888 and received his doctorate in 1891 with a dissertation on line geometry according to Julius Plücker . In 1888 he became an instructor for mathematics at Yale until 1894, followed by academic studies in Germany and France at the universities of Göttingen , Berlin and Paris . After returning to Yale in 1896, he became an assistant professor of mathematics until 1900, then professor until 1936.

He wrote some work on spherical geometry by Sophus Lie , and is the author of various textbooks such as The elements of analytic geometry (1904), New analytic geometry (1912), Theoretical mechanics (1910).

The title "Percey F. Smith Professor of Mathematics" is still used at Yale.

Publications (selection)

  1. ^ Smith, Percey F .: On a Transformation of Laguerre . In: Annals of Mathematics . 1, 1900, pp. 153-172.
  2. ^ Smith, Percey F .: On Surfaces Enveloped by Spheres Belonging to a Linear Spherical Complex . In: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society . 1, 1900, pp. 371-390.
  3. ^ Smith, Percey F .: On Sophus Lie's Representation of Imaginaries in Plane Geometry . In: Annals of Mathematics . 3, 1901, pp. 166-179.
  4. ^ Smith, Percey F .: Geometry Within a Linear Spherical Complex . In: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society . 2, 1901, pp. 235-248.
  5. ↑ Works by and about Percey F. Smith at Open Library

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Smith, Percey Franklyn . In: Chamberlain, Joshua L. (Ed.): Universities and Their Sons: History, Influence and Characteristics of American Universities, With Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Alumni and Recipients of Honorary Degrees . R. Herndon Company, Bosoton 1899, pp. 469-470.
  2. ↑ Harold L. Dorwart: Mathematics and Yale in the nineteen twenties . In: Peter L. Duren, Richard Askey, Uta C. Merzbach (Eds.): A Century of Mathematics in America . American Mathematical Soc, 1989, ISBN 0-8218-0130-9 , pp. 87-97.
  3. ↑ Percey F. Smith in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  4. ↑ Dorwart, p. 89
  5. ↑ Dorwart, pp. 91-92.
  6. ^ Van Ha Vu is appointed the Percey F. Smith Professorship of Mathematics
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Percey F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Percey Franklyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Nyack
DATE OF DEATH 1956