E. H. Moore

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E. H. Moore
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Eliakim Hastings Moore (/ɪˈlaɪəkɪm/; January 26, 1862 – December 30, 1932), usually cited as E. H. Moore or E. Hastings Moore, was an American mathematician.

Life

Moore, the son of a Methodist minister and grandson of US Congressman

Hubert Anson Newton, on some work of William Kingdon Clifford and Arthur Cayley. Newton encouraged Moore to study in Germany, and thus he spent an academic year at the University of Berlin, attending lectures by Leopold Kronecker and Karl Weierstrass
.

On his return to the United States, Moore taught at Yale and at Northwestern University. When the University of Chicago opened its doors in 1892, Moore was the first head of its mathematics department, a position he retained until his death in 1932. His first two colleagues were Oskar Bolza and Heinrich Maschke. The resulting department was the second research-oriented mathematics department in American history, after Johns Hopkins University.

Accomplishments

Moore first worked in

integral equations.[3]

At Chicago, Moore supervised 31 doctoral dissertations, including those of

Leonard Dickson, Robert Lee Moore (no relation), and Oswald Veblen. Birkhoff and Veblen went on to lead departments at Harvard and Princeton, respectively. Dickson became the first great American algebraist and number theorist. Robert Moore founded American topology. According to the Mathematics Genealogy Project
, as of December 2023, E. H. Moore had 29,982 known "descendants."

Moore convinced the

National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians
in 1908 in Rome and in 1912 in Cambridge, England.

The American Mathematical Society established a prize in his honor in 2002.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year 1932–1933" (PDF). Yale University. October 15, 1933. Retrieved April 18, 2011.
  2. ISBN 1-85233-905-5
    , p. 11
  3. MR 1562892
    .

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External links

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