William C. Waterhouse
William Charles Waterhouse is an American mathematician, a professor emeritus of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.[1] His research interests include abstract algebra, number theory, group schemes, and the history of mathematics.[1] He edited the 1966 English translation of Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae[2] and is the author of the textbook Introduction to Affine Group Schemes.[3]
In both 1961 and 1962, Waterhouse (at that time an undergraduate at Harvard University) earned a Putnam Fellowship as one of the top five competitors on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition;[4] with his 1962 performance, he led his school to a third-place team award.[5] He received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Harvard, for work on abelian varieties under the supervision of John Tate,[6][7] and took a faculty position at Cornell University.[7] In 1975 he moved to Penn State.[7]
Waterhouse has won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America twice, in 1984 for his paper "Do Symmetric Problems Have Symmetric Solutions?"[7] and in 1995 for his paper "A Counterexample for Germain".[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 PSU Mathematics Department - Faculty, retrieved 2010-02-06.
- ↑ Reprinted in 1986 by Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-96254-2.
- ↑ Graduate Texts in Mathematics 66, Springer-Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978-0-387-90421-4.
- ↑ The Mathematical Association of America's William Lowell Putnam Competition, retrieved 2010-02-06.
- ↑ "Three Math Students Win Third in Contest", The Harvard Crimson, March 16, 1963.
- ↑ William Charles Waterhouse at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 MAA Writing Awards: Do Symmetric Problems Have Symmetric Solutions?, 1984.
- ↑ MAA Writing Awards: A Counterexample for Germain.
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