J. V. Uspensky

J. V. Uspensky
Delaunay (left) with Uspensky
Born	Yakov Viktorovich Uspensky (Russian: Яков Викторович Успенский) (1883-04-29)April 29, 1883 Urga, Outer Mongolia
Died	January 27, 1947(1947-01-27) (aged 63) San Francisco, United States
Alma mater	University of St. Petersburg
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, Number theory, Probability theory
Institutions	Stanford University, University of Minnesota
Doctoral advisor	Andrey Markov[1]
Notable students	Carl D. Olds Ivan Vinogradov Rodion Kuzmin

James Victor Uspensky (April 29, 1883 – January 27, 1947) was a Russian and American mathematician notable for writing Theory of Equations.^[2][3]

Biography[]

Uspensky graduated from the University of St. Petersburg in 1906 and received his doctorate from the University of St. Petersburg in 1910. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1921.^[4]

Uspensky joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1929-30 and 1930-31 as acting professor of mathematics. He was professor of mathematics at Stanford from 1931 until his death.^[4] Uspensky was the one who kept alive Vincent's theorem of 1834 and 1836, carrying the torch (so to speak) from Serret.^[5]

Books[]

• Uspensky, J. V. (1948). Theory of equations.
• Uspensky, J. V.; Heaslet, M. A. (1939). Elementary Number Theory.
• Uspensky, J. V. (1937). Introduction to mathematical probability.

Notes[]

References[]

• J. V. Uspensky (1931). "On Ch. Jordan's Series for Probability". Annals of Mathematics. Second Series. 32 (2): 306–312. doi:10.2307/1968193. JSTOR 1968193.
• J. V. Uspensky (1926–1927). "On the Development of Arbitrary Functions in Series of Hermite's and Laguerre's Polynomials". Annals of Mathematics. Second Series. 28 (1/4): 593–619. doi:10.2307/1968401. JSTOR 1968401.
• Halsey Royden (1988). The History of the Mathematics Department at Stanford, in A Century of Mathematics in America edited by Peter L. Duren, Richard Askey, and Uta C. Merzbach. American Mathematical Society, History of Mathematics Volume 2, Providence, Rhode Island. Link to PDF: "A History of Mathematics at Stanford" by Halsey Royden.

External links[]

• J. V. Uspensky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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