Earl D. Rainville

Professor Earl David Rainville (1907 – 1966) taught in the Department of Engineering Mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he began as an assistant professor in 1941.[1] He studied at the University of Colorado,[2] receiving his B.A. there in 1930 before going on to graduate studies at Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in 1939 under the supervision of Ruel Churchill.[3] He died on April 29, 1966.[4]

He was the author of several textbooks.

Books

References

  1. ^ "Notes", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 47 (11): 850–855, 1941, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1941-07553-1, http://projecteuclid.org/handle/euclid.bams/1183503962 .
  2. ^ Louise Johnson Rosenbaum, Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Rainville is briefly mentioned as one of Rosenbaum's contemporaries at Colorado.
  3. ^ Earl D. Rainville at the Mathematics Genealogy Project..
  4. ^ "News and Notices", American Mathematical Monthly 73 (10): 1147–1148, 1966, ISSN 0002-9890, http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9890(196612)73%3A10%3C1147%3ANAN%3E2.0.CO%3B2-5 .