Raymond Clare Archibald

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Raymond Clare Archibald (born October 7, 1875 in Stewiacke , † July 26, 1955 in Sackville (New Brunswick) ) was a Canadian mathematician.

Life

After studying at Harvard University , he traveled to Europe, where he received his doctorate in 1900 from the University of Strasbourg under Karl Theodor Reye (The Cardioide and Some of Its Related Curves). He then returned to Canada, where he taught math and violin.

He became a lecturer at Brown University in the USA in 1908 and was appointed professor there in 1923. Archibald was interested in the history of mathematics and was a mathematics librarian at both Brown University and the American Mathematical Society (1921-1941).

In 1917 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 1918 to 1941 he was on the council of the American Mathematical Society. From 1919 to 1921 he was editor of the American Mathematical Monthly . In 1922 he was president of the Mathematical Association of America . He served twice as Vice President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1939 he became chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Mathematical Tables, and in 1943 he founded the journal Mathematical Tables and other Aids to Computation .

In 1943 he was retired.

Fonts

  • Euclid's Book On Divisions Of Figures. With a restoration based on Woepcke's text and on the Practica Geometriae of Leonardo Pisano, 1915
  • Benjamin Peirce 1809-1880, 1925
  • Outline of the History of Mathematics, 1932
  • The scientific achievements of Nathaniel Bowditch, 1937
  • Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society 1888-1938, 1938, reprinted 1988
  • Fifty mathematical table makers, 1948
  • with Harry Bateman : A guide to tables of Bessel functions, 1944

literature

  • Obituary: Raymond Clare Archibald. In: The American Mathematical Monthly , Vol. 62, 1955, pp. 743-745.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Raymond Clare Archibald in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Archibald, Raymond Clare
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Stewiacke
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1955
Place of death Sackville (New Brunswick)