William Pitt Durfee
William Pitt Durfee (5 February 1855 Livonia, Michigan – 17 December 1941 Geneva, New York) was an American mathematician who introduced Durfee squares. He was a student of James Sylvester, and after obtaining his degree in 1883 he became a professor at Hobart college in 1884 and became dean in 1888.
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References
- Parshall, Karen Hunger; Rowe, David E. (1994), The emergence of the American mathematical research community, 1876–1900: J. J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moore, History of Mathematics, 8, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-9004-2, MR1290994, http://books.google.com/books?id=uMvcfEYr6tsC
- Parshall, Karen Hunger (2005), "The emergence of the American Mathematical research community", in Kinyon, Michael; Van Brummelen, Glen, Mathematics and the historian's craft, CMS Books in Mathematics/Ouvrages de Mathématiques de la SMC, 21, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, p. 191, doi:10.1007/0-387-28272-6, ISBN 978-0-387-25284-1, MR2156756, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28272-6
- William Pitt Durfee at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Who Was Who in America: with World Notables. Volume 1, by Marquis Who's Who, 1942.
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Persondata |
Name |
Durfee, William Pitt |
Alternative names |
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Short description |
Mathematician |
Date of birth |
5 February 1855 |
Place of birth |
Livonia, Michigan |
Date of death |
17 December 1941 |
Place of death |
Geneva, New York |