Harry Coonce
Harry Bernard Coonce (born 1939) is an American mathematician notable for being the originator of the now-popular Mathematics Genealogy Project, launched in 1996, a web-based catalog of mathematics doctoral advisors and students.[1]
Coonce conceived of the idea while reading the unsigned thesis of his
C. Einar Hille, gave him the idea for the project. In a 2000 interview, Coonce estimated that the project would top out at about 80,000 entries.[2] In June 2016, the number of entries surpassed 200,000.[3]
Education
Coonce completed his PhD in 1969 at the University of Delaware with a dissertation on A Variational Method for Functions of Bounded Boundary Rotation.[4] Coonce presently is a retired mathematics professor of Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Private life
He married Susan Schilling, a computer scientist who died in 2016.[5]
References
- ^ Jackson, Allyn (2007), "A labor of love: the Mathematics Genealogy Project" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 54 (8): 1002–1003.
- ^ Brindley, David. (2000). “Genealogy: a Family You Can Count On”, Prism Magazine, Jan.
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project: Number of records 14 November 2016
- ^ Harry Bernand Coonce – Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ "Obituary - Susan M. Schilling". www.mankatomortuary.com. Retrieved Aug 20, 2023.
