Julian Coolidge
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Julian Lowell Coolidge (September 28, 1873 – March 5, 1954) was an American mathematician, historian, a professor and chairman of the Harvard University Mathematics Department.[1]
Biography
Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard University[1] and Balliol College, Oxford.[2]
Between 1897 and 1899, Julian Coolidge taught at the Groton School, where one of his students was Franklin D. Roosevelt.[1] He left Groton to accept a teaching position at Harvard and in 1902 was given an assistant professorship, but took two years off to further his education with studies in Turin, Italy[1] before receiving his doctorate from the University of Bonn.[1][3] Julian Coolidge then returned to teach at Harvard where he remained for his entire academic career, interrupted only by a year at the Sorbonne in Paris as an exchange professor.[1]
During World War I, he served with the U.S. Army's Overseas Expeditionary Force in France, rising to the rank of major. In 1919, he was awarded a Knight of France's Legion of Honor.[1]
Coolidge returned to teach at Harvard where he was awarded a full professorship. In 1927 he was appointed chairman of the Mathematics Department at Harvard,[1] a position he held until his retirement in 1940. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[4] Coolidge served as president of the Mathematical Association of America and vice-president of the American Mathematical Society.[1][5] He authored several books on mathematics and on the history of mathematics. He was Master of Lowell House (one of Harvard's undergraduate residences) from 1930 to 1940.Template:Refn
Coolidge died in 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged 80.[1]
Writings
- J. L. Coolidge (1909) The elements of non-Euclidean geometry, Oxford University Press.
- J. L. Coolidge (1916) A Treatise on the Circle and the Sphere, Oxford University Press.[6]
- J. L. Coolidge (1924) The geometry of the complex domain, The Clarendon Press.
- J. L. Coolidge (1925) An introduction to mathematical probability, Oxford University Press.
- J. L. Coolidge (1931) A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves, Oxford University Press (Dover Publications 2004).
- J. L. Coolidge (1940) A history of geometrical methods,[7] Oxford University Press (Dover Publications 2003).
- J. L. Coolidge (1945) History of the conic sections and quadric surfaces, The Clarendon Press.[8]
- J. L. Coolidge (1949) The Mathematics Of Great Amateurs, Oxford University Press (Dover Publications 1963).
See also
References
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External links
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- Coolidge: "Origin of Polar Coordinates" (from MacTutor)
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- 1873 births
- 1954 deaths
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- American historians of mathematics
- United States Army personnel of World War I
- University of Paris alumni
- University of Bonn alumni
- Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
- Harvard University alumni
- Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty
- American recipients of the Legion of Honour
- Presidents of the Mathematical Association of America
- People from Cambridge, Massachusetts
- People from Brookline, Massachusetts
- American expatriates in France