Dunham Jackson
Dunham Jackson | |
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Born | (1888-07-24)24 July 1888 |
Died | 6 November 1946(1946-11-06) (aged 58) |
Nationality | American |
Awards | Chauvenet Prize (1935) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | mathematician |
Doctoral students | Sally Elizabeth Carlson |
Dunham Jackson (July 24, 1888 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts – November 6, 1946) was a mathematician who worked within approximation theory, notably with trigonometrical and orthogonal polynomials.[1] He is known for Jackson's inequality. He was awarded the Chauvenet Prize in 1935.[2] His book Fourier Series and Orthogonal Polynomials (dated 1941) was reprinted in 2004.
Career
After attending the local school in Bridgewater, Jackson went up to Harvard in 1904 at the age of 16 to study mathematics, graduating A.B in 1908 and A.M. in 1909. He then moved to continue his studies at Göttingen for two years with the help of Harvard Fellowships. He returned to Harvard in 1911 as an instructor in mathematics and was promoted Assistant Professor in 1916. During the First World War he became an officer in the Ordnance Department where he produced a booklet of range tables for the artillery. In 1919 he took up a professorship in mathematics at the University of Minnesota, remaining there until his death.[3]
While at Minnesota he won the Chauvenet Prize from the Mathematical Association of America in 1935 and was inducted as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1936. [4]
Private life
He married Harriet Spratt Hulley in 1918; they had two daughters, Anne Hulley Jackson and Mary Eloise Jackson.[3]
Publications
- Dunham Jackson: The Theory of Approximation. AMS, 1930.[5]
- Dunham Jackson: Fourier Series and Orthogonal Polynomials. Carus Mathematical Monographs, 1941.[6]
References
- ^ Hart, William L. (1948). "Dunham Jackson 1888-1946". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 54 (9): 847–860. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1948-09068-1. MR 1565085.
- ^ MAA presidents: Dunham Jackson
- ^ a b "Dunham Jackson". MacTutor. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ "APS Fellow archive". APS. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ Shohat, J. (1931). "Dunham Jackson on Approximation". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 37 (7): 501–505. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1931-05168-5.
- ^ Moore, C. N. (21 August 1942). "Scientific Books: The Fourier Series". Science. 96 (2486): 183–184. doi:10.1126/science.96.2486.183.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Dunham Jackson", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Dunham Jackson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Jackson's photo Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine at Mathematical Association of America site.
- Another (bigger one) photo of Jackson[permanent dead link] at History of Approximation Theory site.
- National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir
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- 1925 G. A. Bliss
- 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
- 1932 G. H. Hardy
- 1935 Dunham Jackson
- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
- 1950 Mark Kac
- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 Richard H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
- 1963 Philip J. Davis
- 1964 Leon Henkin
- 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
- 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
- 1972 François Trèves
- 1973 Carl D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
- 1982 No award given.
- 1983 No award given.
- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1985 Carl Pomerance
- 1986 George Miel
- 1987 James H. Wilkinson
- 1988 Stephen Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
- 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
- 1994 Barry Mazur
- 1995 Donald G. Saari
- 1996 Joan Birman
- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
- 2009 Harold P. Boas
- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
- 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
- 2013 Robert Ghrist
- 2014 Ravi Vakil
- 2015 Dana Mackenzie
- 2016 Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith
- 2017 Mark Schilling
- 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
- 2019 Tom Leinster
- 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele
- 2021 Travis Kowalski
- 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
- 2023 Kimmo Eriksson & Jonas Eliasson
- 2024 Jeffrey Whitmer