Eliakim Hastings Moore ( English Eliakim Hastings Moore ; January 26, 1862 - December 30, 1932 ) - American mathematician and teacher.
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Date of Birth | |
Place of Birth | Marietta, Ohio |
Date of death | |
Place of death | Chicago |
A country | USA |
Scientific field | maths |
Place of work | Northwestern University , Yale University , University of Chicago |
Alma mater | Yale university |
supervisor | Newton, Hubert Anson |
Famous students | George David Birkhoff Oswald Veblen |
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Biography
Moore was the son of a Methodist priest and the grandson of Congressman ; became interested in mathematics after working during the summer holidays at the Cincinnati Observatory. [3] In 1883, he received a bachelor's degree from Yale University , in 1885 he defended his thesis, which is devoted to the dissemination of several Clifford results on spatial curves to spaces of higher dimension. After that, he spent a year in Germany , studying German and attending the Kronecker and Weierstrass lectures at the University of Berlin . Upon his return to the United States, Moore taught at Northwestern and Yale Universities. In 1892, the University of Chicago opened, Moore headed its department of mathematics and remained in this position until 1931. This faculty was the second faculty in the United States (after Johns Hopkins University ), which conducted research in mathematics.
Moore's first works are devoted mainly to general algebra and algebraic geometry ; in 1893, Moore for the first time proved a classification theorem for finite fields . Around 1900, he began working on the foundations of geometry ; He reformulated Hilbert's axioms in such a way that the only initial concept was the notion of a point (Hilbert has points, lines and planes). In 1902, he proved that one of Gilbert's axioms follows from the rest. Twenty-year-old Robert Lee Moore , regardless of Eliakim Moore, offered his proof, which the latter found simpler and arranged for Robert a scholarship at the University of Chicago. After 1906, Moore studied the foundations of the analysis , in particular, by proposing the concept of a closure operator . Moore also wrote several papers on number theory and integral equations . [four]
More than 30 people defended doctoral dissertations at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Moore. [5] In 1893, he was President of the First International Mathematical Congress, held in the United States. He also persuaded the leaders of the New York Mathematical Society to change its name to “ American Mathematical Society ”, and founded its department in Chicago . [3] In 1901–02, he was president of AMS . He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (1901) [6] , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society .
The American Mathematical Society established an award in his honor. [7]
See also
- Pseudo Inverse Matrix
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Archive for the History of Mathematics McTutor
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson . Moore, Eliakim Hastings (English) - biography in the MacTutor archive.
- Scientific The Scientific Work of Eliakim Hastings Moore (Eng.) - Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.
- ↑ Moore, Eliakim Hastings (Eng.) In the project " Mathematical Genealogy "
- ↑ Eliakim Moore (English)
- ↑ EH Moore Research Article Prize (English)
Links
- EH Moore - Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences .