Angus Ellis Taylor

Angus Ellis Taylor
Born 13 October 1911 (1911-10-13)
Craig, Colorado
Died 6 April 1999 (1999-04-07) (aged 87)
Berkeley, California
Residence United States
Citizenship American
Fields Spectral theory
Institutions UCLA, UC Santa Cruz
Alma mater Caltech
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 would later chair (1958–1964). Taylor was also an astute administrator and would eventually rise 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.), would be a standard for a generation of mathematics students.[1]

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