Edward Burr Van Vleck

Edward Burr Van Vleck

Edward Burr Van Vleck (1863–1943) was an American mathematician, born in Middletown, Connecticut.

He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1884, attended Johns Hopkins in 1885-87, and studied at Göttingen (Ph.D., 1893). He was assistant professor and professor at Wesleyan (1895-1906), and professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after 1906. In 1913 he became president of the American Mathematical Society, of whose "Transactions" he had been first associate editor (1902-05) and then editor (1905-10). He was the author of "Theory of Divergent Series and Algebraic Continued Fractions" (1903), and of several monographs in mathematical journals. His son, John Hasbrouck van Vleck, was a notable physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1977.

Writings

* [http://www.archive.org/details/seltopicstheory00vanvrich Selected topics in the theory of divergent series and of continued fractions] (New York; MacMillan, 1905)

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