Henry Taber (1860–1936) was an American mathematician.
Henry Taber | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 10, 1860 Staten Island, New York, US |
| Died | January 6, 1936 (aged 75) |
| Alma mater | Sheffield Scientific School Johns Hopkins University |
| Spouse | Fanny Lawrence (†1892) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Clark University |
| Thesis | On Clifford's n-fold Algebras (1886) |
| Doctoral advisor | William Edward Story |
| Doctoral students | William Metzler Stephen Elmer Slocum |
Biography edit
Taber studied mechanical engineering at Sheffield Scientific School from 1877 to 1882.[1] Then, he went to Baltimore to study mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, under Charles Sanders Peirce[2] and William Edward Story. He was awarded a doctorate in 1888, with a dissertation most likely tutored by Story.[3]
The following year he was assistant professor at Johns Hopkins, but in 1889, on Clark University's foundation hiring his teacher and friend, Story, he went also to Clark.[4] Both remained at Clark as mathematics professors until retirement in 1921.[5]
His brother, Robert Taber, was a well known Broadway theatre actor.
Taber popularized linear algebra as expressed with matrices, in particular the symmetric matrix, skew-symmetric matrix, and orthogonal matrix.
Works edit
The papers by Henry Taber have been listed by Bibliographica Hopkinsiensis[6]
- 1890: On the Theory of Matrices, American Journal of Mathematics 12: 337 via Hathi Trust
- 1891: "On certain Identities in the Theory of Matrices", American Journal of Mathematics 13
- 1891: "On the application to matrices of any order of the quaternion symbols S and V", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 22
- 1891: "On certain properties of symmetric, skew-symmetric and orthogonal matrices", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 22
- 1891: "On the matrical equation φ Ω = Ω φ", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 18
- 1891: "On a theorem of Sylvester's relating to non-degenerate matrices", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science 19
- 1892: "Note on representation of orthogonal matrices", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science 19
- 1893: "On real orthogonal substitution", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science 20
- 1893: "On the linear transformations between two quadrics", Journal of the London Mathematical Society 24
- 1894: "On orthogonal substitutions that can be expressed as a function of a single alternate (or skew-symmetric) substitution", American Journal of Mathematics 16
References edit
- ^ Cooke & Rickey 1989, p. 44.
- ^ Pietarinen & Chevalier 2014, p. 23.
- ^ Cooke & Rickey 1989, p. 45.
- ^ Cooke & Rickey 1989, p. 50.
- ^ Cooke & Rickey 1989, p. 58.
- ^ Henry Taber in Bibliographica Hopkinsiensis via Google Books
Bibliography edit
- Cooke, Roger; Rickey, V. Frederick (1989). "W. E. Story of Hopkins and Clark". In Peter Duren (ed.). A century of mathematics in America. Part 3. American Mathematical Society. pp. 29–76. ISBN 0-8218-0136-8.
- Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko; Chevalier, Jean Marie (2014). "The Johns Hopkins Metaphysical Club and Its Impact on the Development of the Philosophy and Methodology of Sciences in the Late 19th-Century United States". Commens Working Papers (2): 1–26. ISSN 2342-4532.
External links edit
- "Faculty Distinctions". Clark University. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
- Henry Taber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project