Subject: Re: [HM] American mathematicians
From: Todd Timmons (ttimmons@systema.westark.edu)
Date: Thu May 04 2000 - 10:07:58 EDT
Of course it depends on how we define "major"(and maybe even how we
define "mathematician"), but Benjamin Pierce comes to mind as the
first American mathematician with a significant reputation among his
collegues in Europe. Before him, Nathaniel Bowditch, in the loosely
defined profession of "mathematician" in the early nineteenth century,
also attained a good deal of respect from European mathematicians.
Todd Timmons
Date sent: Wed, 03 May 2000 15:11:21 +0100
From: "Victor E. Hill IV" <Victor.E.Hill@williams.edu>
Subject: [HM] American mathematicians
To: historia-matematica@chasque.apc.org
>
> One of my students asked in my History of Mathematics class
> yesterday whom I regarded as the first major American (U.S.A.)
> mathematician. The first name that came to my mind was
> G. A. Miller, but that's because I was trained as a group
> theorist. Of course, Sylvester taught at U.Va. and Johns
> Hopkins, but he remained a British subject. Whom else would
> list members nominate?
>
> Victor E. Hill IV
>
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