William Edward Story

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William Edward Story

William Edward Story (born April 29, 1850 in Boston , Massachusetts , † April 10 [different: April 11 ] 1930 in Worcester , Massachusetts) was an American mathematician . He made a contribution to the development of mathematics in the United States as an independent scientific discipline.

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Story graduated from Harvard University in 1871 . He then traveled to Germany to hear lectures from Karl Weierstrass , Ernst Eduard Kummer and Hermann von Helmholtz in Berlin. With Carl Gottfried Neumann and Wilhelm Scheibner he acquired a Dr. phil. with the work On the algebraic relations existing between the polars of the binary quintic .

1875/76 Story worked as a lecturer at Harvard University before he was appointed professor of mathematics at the newly opened Johns Hopkins University in 1876 , and in 1889 at the newly opened Clark University . Story retired in 1921 .

From 1878 to 1882, Story was the editor of the American Journal of Mathematics . Towards the end of his career, Story mainly dealt with the history of mathematics and the work of Omar Chayyām . Story's students included Linnaeus Dowling , Solomon Lefschetz, and Henry Taber .

In 1876 Story was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1881 as a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science , and in 1908 as a member of the National Academy of Sciences .

Story was married to Mary Deborah Harrison from 1878, the couple had one child. William Edward Story died on April 10, 1930, a pneumonia . His grave is located at the Central Cemetery of Beverly , Massachusetts.

literature

  • Fabian Franklin: William Edward Story (1850-1930). In: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , Vol. 70, No. 10 (March 1936), pp. 578-580. ( JSTOR: 20023194 )

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dr William Edward Story in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  2. ^ JJ O'Connor, EF Robertson: William Edward Story. In: MacTutor. University of St Andrews , accessed March 8, 2019 .
  3. ^ Fabian Franklin: William Edward Story (1850-1930). In: Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , Vol. 70, No. 10 (March 1936), pp. 578-580. ( JSTOR: 20023194 )
  4. ↑ a b William Story. In: nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences , accessed March 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of William Edward Story at academictree.org, accessed on 2019-03-08.
  6. ↑ limited preview in the Google book search
  7. ↑ William Edward Story. In: nodak.edu. Mathematics Genealogy Project, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved March 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Story, William Edward
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Story, William E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1930
Place of death Worcester , Massachusetts