William Ellsworth Brooke

William Ellsworth Brooke (also William E. Brooke , WE Brooke ; born October 7, 1870 in Minier , Illinois , † December 22, 1963 in Kankakee , Illinois) was an American mathematician .

Life

Family and education

William Ellsworth Brooke, the son of John B. Brooke and Rebecca A. Reynolds Brooke, studied mathematics and civil engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln after graduating from high school , and in 1892 received a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree , 1896 a Master of Arts .

William Ellsworth Brooke married Helen Frances Langer, who was born in West Point , Nebraska , on August 22, 1898 . He died in a hospital in Kankakee in December 1963 at the age of 93.

Professional background

Brooke had been employed as a Fellow and Assistant in Mathematics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since 1894, and in 1897 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Omaha High School in Omaha , Nebraska. In 1901 William Ellsworth Brooke switched to the role of Instructor in Mathematics at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis , in 1905 he was promoted to Assistant Professor , in 1907 to Full Professor of Mathematics and Mechanics . Brooke, who headed the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics and the Department of Drawing and Desriptive Geometry, retired in 1939 .

William Ellsworth Brooke, who emerged from fundamental research on trigonometry and wrote mathematics textbooks, became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Mathematical Society , the German Mathematicians Association , the Circolo Matematico di Palermo and the American Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education elected.

Publications

• together with George N. Bauer: Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. 2d rev. ed., DC Heath & Co., Boston, New York, 1917
• with Hugh B. Wilcox: Engineering Mechanics. Ginn and Co., Boston, Mass., 1929
• with Hugh B. Wilcox: Intermediate Algebra. Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1938

literature

• Circolo matematico di Palmero: Annuario biografico del Circolo matematico di Palermo. Il Circolo, Palermo (Italia), 1912, p. 31.
• German Mathematicians Association: Annual report of the German Mathematicians Association. Printed and published by Georg Reimer, Berlin, 1919, p. 4.
• Who Was Who in America With World Notables: Volume 4, 1961–1968. Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1968, p. 121.
• Who was who in America. Volume 5: 1969-1973. Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1973, p. 88.

Web links

• William Ellsworth Brooke in the database of Find a Grave (English)