Elias Loomis

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Elias Loomis (1811-89) was an American mathematician, born in Willington. Conn. He graduated at Yale College in 1830; was tutor there for three years, 1833-36; spent the next year in scientific investigation in Paris; on his return was appointed professor of mathematics in the Western Reserve College, Ohio; from 1844 to 1860 held the professorship of natural philosophy and mathematics in the University of the City of New York, and in the latter year became professor of natural philosophy in Yale. Professor Loomis published (besides many papers in the American Journal of Science and in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society) many textbooks on mathematics.