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
Thesis	Analytic Functions in General Analysis (1936)
Doctoral advisor	Aristotle Michal
Notable students	Arnold Allen David C. Lay 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 later chaired (1958–1964). Taylor was also an astute administrator and eventually rose 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.), became a standard for a generation of mathematics students.^[1]

Books

• Calculus with Analytic Geometry by Angus E. Taylor Vol. 1 ISBN 0-923891-24-2
• Calculus with Analytic Geometry by Angus E. Taylor Vol. 2 ISBN 0-923891-25-0
• Advanced Calculus by Angus E. Taylor ASIN B000UG784K
• General theory of functions and integration Blaisdell publishing company 1965 library of congreress catlaog card number 65-14566
• Introduction to Functional analysis
• Calculus by G. E. F. Sherwood and Angus E. Taylor, Prentice-Hall, 1942 (3rd ed., 1954)

References

• Angus E. Taylor (1984) "A Life in Mathematics Remembered", American Mathematical Monthly 91(10):605–18.

External links

• Angus Ellis Taylor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle
• Photographs of Angus Taylor from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections