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), 1941: 850–855, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1941-07553-1.
  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), 1966: 1147–1148, ISSN 0002-9890.
  5. Sheffer, I. M. (1960). "Review: Earl D. Rainville, Special functions". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 66 (6): 482–483. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1960-10507-1.


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