Angus Ellis Taylor
Angus Ellis Taylor | |
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Born | 13 October 1911 |
Died | 6 April 1999 | (aged 87)
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Caltech |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Spectral theory |
Institutions | UCLA, UC Santa Cruz |
Thesis | Analytic Functions in General Analysis (1936) |
Doctoral advisor | Aristotle Michal |
Notable students | Arnold Allen Peter Swerling Edward O. Thorp |
Angus Ellis Taylor (October 13, 1911 – April 6, 1999) was a mathematician and professor at various universities in the University of California system. He earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard summa cum laude in 1933 and his PhD at Caltech in 1936 under Aristotle Michal with a dissertation on analytic functions. By 1944 he had risen to full professor at UCLA, whose mathematics department he later chaired (1958–1964). Taylor was also an astute administrator and eventually rose through the UC system to become provost and then chancellor of UC Santa Cruz. He authored a number of mathematical texts, one of which, Advanced Calculus (1955, Ginn and Co.), became a standard for a generation of mathematics students.[1]
Books[]
- Calculus with Analytic Geometry by Angus E. Taylor Vol. 1
- Calculus with Analytic Geometry by Angus E. Taylor Vol. 2
- Advanced Calculus by Angus E. Taylor ASIN B000UG784K
- General theory of functions and integration Blaisdell publishing company 1965
- Introduction to Functional analysis
- Calculus by G. E. F. Sherwood and Angus E. Taylor, Prentice-Hall, 1942 (3rd ed., 1954)
References[]
- ^ "Angus E. Taylor". University of California. Archived from the original on 2010-06-01. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
- Angus E. Taylor (1984) "A Life in Mathematics Remembered", American Mathematical Monthly 91(10):605–18.doi:10.2307/2323362
External links[]
- Angus Ellis Taylor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle
- Photographs of Angus Taylor from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections
Categories:
- 1911 births
- 1999 deaths
- Harvard University alumni
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- Chancellors of the University of California, Santa Cruz
- American mathematician stubs