Edward Burr Van Vleck
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1863 – 1943
Who was Edward Burr Van Vleck?
Edward Burr Van Vleck was an American mathematician.
The son of astronomer John Monroe Van Vleck, he graduated from Wesleyan University in 1884, attended Johns Hopkins in 1885-87, and studied at Göttingen. He also received 1 July 1914 an honorary doctorate of the University of Groningen. He was assistant professor and professor at Wesleyan, and after 1906 a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where the mathematics building is named after him. His doctoral students include H. S. Wall. In 1913 he became president of the American Mathematical Society, of whose Transactions he had been first associate editor and then editor. He was the author of Theory of Divergent Series and Algebraic Continued Fractions, and of several monographs in mathematical journals. His son, John Hasbrouck van Vleck, was a notable physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1977.
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- Born
- Jun 7, 1863
United States of America - Parents
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Wesleyan University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Died
- Jun 3, 1943
Madison
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on July 23, 2013
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