Cassius Jackson Keyser
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Cassius Jackson Keyser (15 May 1862 – 8 May 1947) was an American
philosophical
inclinations.
Life
Keyser's initial higher education was at North West Ohio Normal School (now
SUNY New Paltz), and at Washington University in St. Louis, he enrolled as a graduate student at Columbia University, earning the MA in 1896 and the PhD
in 1901. He spent the rest of his career at Columbia, becoming the Adrain Professor of Mathematics (1904–27) and Head of the department (1910–16). He retired in 1927.
Keyser was one of the first Americans to appreciate the new directions in the
Emil Post
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He became a member of the American board of the New International Encyclopedia and his Columbia colleague John Dewey, Keyser helped found the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). He was a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Mathematical Society.
Books
- 1914. Science and Religion: The Rational and the Super-Rational.
- 1916. The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking. Columbia Univ. Press.
- 1922. Mathematical Philosophy, a Study of Fate and Freedom.[2]
- 1927. Mole Philosophy and Other Essays.
- 1932. The Meaning of Mathematics.
- 1935. A glance at some of the ideas of Charles Sanders Peirce.
- 1935. Mathematics and the Question of the Cosmic Mind, with Other Essays.
- 1935. Three great synonyms: transformation, function.
- 1936. Panthetics.
- 1938. A mathematical prodigy: history and legend.
- 1938. Roger Bacon.
- 1938. Benedict Spinoza.
- 1939. The Role of Mathematics in the tragedy of our modern culture.
- 1941. Charles Sanders Peirce as a pioneer. Internet Archive Eprint. A lecture given on May 18, 1935 at the Galois Institute of Mathematics at Long Island University.
- 1942. Thinking about thinking.
- 1947. Mathematics as a culture clue.
- 1952. The rational and the superrational: studies in thinking.
- 2005. Mathematics. Michigan Historical Reprint Series.
- 2005. Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedom (Lectures for the Educated Laymen). Michigan Historical Reprint Series.
See also
References
- ^ Sooyoung Chang, Academic Genealogy of Mathematicians, World Scientific, 2010, p. 405.
- .
Further reading
- ISBN 0-691-05857-1.
External links
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- Biography on the website of Bowling Green State University
- Finding aid to Cassius Jackson Keyser papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
- Cassius Jackson Keyser at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.)
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