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Mathematicians 2013-2014 Flashcards

Pick the right mathematician for each statement.

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From Baltimore County

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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Carved a wall clock by recreating the mechanism found in a pocket watch

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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African American

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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No formal education

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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A few seasons in a Quaker school to learn elementary arithmetic and music

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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Predicted solar eclipse

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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Worked on lunar eclipses

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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Earned 8th grade education by 15

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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Took over farm and devised irrigation system & grew tobacco

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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Survey of District of Columbia (recommended by Thomas Jefferson)

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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Traded letters with Jefferson urging him to change his pro-slavery views

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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Letters with Jefferson were published

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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Published astronomy almanac

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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One of his letters featured an argument that black and white people have the same intellectual abilities

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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Wrote journals with math puzzles & calculations (did not survive a fire)

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Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)

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Studied oceanography

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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An American navigator

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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From Salem, Massachusetts

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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His family struggled financially after loss of their family company

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Father was a cooper

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Had to end his formal education to help his father in his cooperage

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Worked as a clerk (teenage years) in a shop that worked with ship parts… Taught himself at the time

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Learned from the works of Irish chemist Richard Kirwin. Kirwin’s library was on a ship that was intercepted and brought back to Salem

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Motivated to read Newton’s Principia.

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Taught himself calculus (differential and integral) and Latin to understand Newton’s works

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Learned other languages to study mathematics

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Made 4 major voyages and studied Laplace’s work while en route.

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Was a sailor and owned his own merchant ship

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Quit being a sailor; became president of an insurance company, Essex Fire and Marine Insurance

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Had a high reputation in the world due to his astronomical and mathematical investigations

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Corrected and published the first American Moore’s Practical Navigator

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Loved to check math calculations in Moore’s book; by 3rd edition he published it under his OWN name

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Attended the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Offered the chair of math and sciences at Harvard, and the Universities of West Point and Virginia…. But declined all.

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Wrote articles on naval charts of harbors (Salem) and articles on the moon

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Scientific publications on a meteor explosion, orbits of comets, and Lissajours (pendulum motion suspended from two points)

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Translated some of Laplace’s work Fr - - - > En

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Published in British and Continental journals

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Member of American Philosophical Society

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Member of Royal Society of Edinburgh

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)
George William Hill (1838-1914)
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Member of Royal Society of England

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Member of Royal Irish Society

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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After being president of a company, later became an actuary for an insurance company

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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Worked with meteors, comets, tides, and orbits.

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Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838)

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From Waterton, Connecticut

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Had a well-off family

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Entered Yale

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888) at age 16 to study math. Emory McClintock (1840-1916) after attending Dickinson College. Theodore Strong (1790-1869) also.

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Father endowed a named mathematical prize at Yale in his name to celebrate his graduation

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Earned a BA then remained at Yale to study engineering

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Earned PhB at Yale.

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Before a trip to Havana, he disappeared; went to California and then to Australia with no trace… Was depressed of his privileged life

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Taught in California and Australia at a grammar school… Returned to the US 4 years later and devoted his study to math

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Published a paper on interpolation

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Studied the liabilities of life insurance policies at the request of his uncle, president of Knickerbocker’s Insurance company

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Became obsessed with mortality tables and published over 20 papers on the subject

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Introduced formal optimality criteria for smoothness

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Borrowed statistical ideas from astronomy for his work with the least squares method of area

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Made remarkable contributions to statistics before those credited with the same contributions (thus he received no credit)

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Not part of any institution and thus did not get visibility

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Published in obscure journals

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Pearson acknowledges his priority in developing the Chi Square distribution

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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Did not teach at Yale after graduating there

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Erastus DeForest (1834-1888)

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From New York City

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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His father was an artist specializing in engraving

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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Had a formal education and excelled in math classes

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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Graduated from Rutgers (but it was not called that at the time)

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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Learned from Thomas Strong (also a mathematician), who was a friend of Bowditch

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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Studied from Thomas Strong’s personal library in addition to his own university studies

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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After graduation, studied lunar theory for 12 years before publishing his findings

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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Joined the Nautical Almanac Office

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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Won 1st prize for his essay: On the Confrontation of the Earth

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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Tended to work on his own and was reclusive

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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For a 10 yr period, worked in Washington DC on the theory and tables for the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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Studied the transits of Venus

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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First to use infinite determinants to study the orbit of the moon

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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Published Researches on Lunar Theory

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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His theory on the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn is considered to be a major contribution to mathematical astronomy

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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Considered a mathematician, but his mathematical works are based entirely on his orbits calculations

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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Lectured/taught at Columbia

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George William Hill (1838-1914) for 3 years… Emory McClintock (1840-1916) was a math tutor/teacher there

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Described the gravitational sphere of influence.

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George William Hill (1838-1914)

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Lived in Pennsylvania and Missouri

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Father was a clergyman who taught math, Greek, and Latin at Dickinson College

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Homeschooled, spent 1 year in college and then entered Dickinson College

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Continued his studies in Europe

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Studied chemistry at the University of Paris and Gottigen

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Followed US politics while abroad and came home to join the Union army after Lincoln was elected and the South seceded.

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Joined Union army as a topographical engineer

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Was a lieutenant, but did not follow through because he suffered severe sunstroke

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Represented the US Consul in England

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Became associated with a bank in Paris for a year

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Became an actuary in Asbury Life Insurance Company in New York

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Leading actuary in America for many years

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Published 30+ papers answering actuarial questions

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Published papers abut treating difference equations as differential equations of infinite order

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Published papers about quintic equations which are solvable algebraically

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Published A Simplified Solution of the Cubic

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Published On the Nature and Use of the Functions Employed in the Recognition of Quadratic Residues……… Therefore he worked on quadratic residues

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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VP and president of the NY Mathematical Society

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Received honors for his work on the calculus of enlargement in his “An Essay of the Calculus of Enlargement” in which he worked on developing a unified theory on the calculus of finite differences and differential calculus.

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Has honorary PhD degrees from the Universities: Wisconsin, Yale, and Columbia

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Hobbies included genealogy and military history

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Researched George Washington and the American Revolutionary War to write “The Rise and Fall of 1779,” which was left unfinished on his death

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Emory McClintock (1840-1916)

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Father was a congregational minister

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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Raised by his uncle

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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Educated by clergymen in the area who prepared him for Yale

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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Was not prepared mathematically by clergy, but quickly caught up and won several math awards

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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Heavily influenced at Yale by a well-known chemist Silliman

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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INITIALLY decided to study chemistry

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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Dwight, president of Yale, encouraged him to study mathematics

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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Served as a math tutor/teacher at Hamilton College, a college that served to bring the Oneida children and white settlers together

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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Became a professor of mathematics and philosophy at Hamilton

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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Reputation of being an excellent math professor, offered several professorships, which he declined until Rutgers.

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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Known for helping provide a good foundation of mathematics to be developed in America

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

114
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Influenced by Scottish mathematicians and the Continental approach to calculus

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

115
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Provided a proof of Stewart’s conjectures

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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Used Leibniz’ approach to calculus in his papers; which heavily introduced Americans to the Continental approach to calculus

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

117
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Has two named contributions:______’s Contributions to Mathematical Education ; _______’s Mathematical Work.

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

118
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Published A Treatise on Elementary and High Algebra

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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Published A Treatise on Differential and Integral Calculus

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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Books had little impact and were not widely distributed

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Theodore Strong (1790-1869)

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