Edward Kasner
Mathematician, Author
1878 – 1955
Who was Edward Kasner?
Edward Kasner was a prominent American mathematician who was appointed Tutor on Mathematics in the Columbia University Mathematics Department. Kasner was the first Jew appointed to a faculty position in the sciences at Columbia University. Subsequently, he became an adjunct professor in 1906, and a full professor in 1910, at the university. Differential geometry was his main field of study. In addition to introducing the term "googol", he is known also for the Kasner metric and the Kasner polygon.
Kasner's Ph.D. dissertation was titled The Invariant Theory of the Inversion Group: Geometry upon a Quadric Surface; it was published by the American Mathematical Society in 1900 in their Transactions.
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- Born
- Apr 2, 1878
New York City - Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- Died
- Jan 7, 1955
New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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