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Julian Coolidge
BornSeptember 28, 1873
Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedMarch 5, 1954 (1954-03-06) (aged 80)
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Oxford University
Known forA Treatise on the Circle and the Sphere
Awards Legion of Honour – Knight (1919)
Scientific career
Fieldsmathematics
InstitutionsHarvard University
Doctoral advisorEduard Study
Doctoral studentsRoger Arthur Johnson

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

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Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard University and Oxford University.[1]

Between 1897 and 1899, Julian Coolidge taught at the Groton School, where one of his students was Franklin D. Roosevelt.[1] He left the private school 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][2] 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,[3] Coolidge served as president of the Mathematical Association of America and vice-president of the American Mathematical Society.[1][4] 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.[5]

Coolidge died in 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aged 80.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. "Julian Coolidge". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  2. ^ Julian Coolidge at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "The Early History of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 24 (4): 3–23, 1971, doi:10.2307/3823172, JSTOR 3823172.
  4. ^ MAA presidents: Julian Lowell Coolidge
  5. ^ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1954/3/6/first-lowell-housemaster-julian-coolidge-dies/
  6. ^ White, H. S. (1919). "Circle and Sphere Geometry". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (10): 464–467. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1919-03230-3.
  7. ^ Snyder, Virgil (1941). "Review: J. L. Coolidge, A History of Geometrical Methods". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47 (1): 20–22. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1941-07368-4.
  8. ^ Blumenthal, Leonard M. (1947). "Review: J. L. Coolidge, A history of the conic sections and quadrics". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (1, Part 1): 36. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1947-08730-9.
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