Henry Taber

Henry Taber (1860–1936) was an American mathematician.

Henry Taber
Born(1860-06-10)June 10, 1860
Staten Island, New York, US
DiedJanuary 6, 1936(1936-01-06) (aged 75)
Alma materSheffield Scientific School
Johns Hopkins University
SpouseFanny Lawrence (†1892)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsClark University
ThesisOn Clifford's n-fold Algebras (1886)
Doctoral advisorWilliam Edward Story
Doctoral studentsWilliam Metzler
Stephen Elmer Slocum

Biography

Taber studied mechanical engineering at Sheffield Scientific School from 1877 to 1882.[1] Then, he went to Baltimore to study mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, under Charles Sanders Peirce[2] and William Edward Story. He was awarded a doctorate in 1888, with a dissertation probably tutored by Story.[3]

The following year he was assistant professor at Johns Hopkins, but in 1889, on Clark University's foundation hiring his teacher and friend, Story, he went also to Clark.[4] Both remained at Clark as mathematics professors until retirement in 1921.[5]

His brother, Robert Taber, was a well known Broadway theatre actor.

Taber promulgated linear algebra as expressed with matrices, in particular the symmetric matrix, skew-symmetric matrix, and orthogonal matrix.

Works

The papers by Henry Taber have been listed by Bibliographica Hopkinsiensis[6]

  • 1890: On the Theory of Matrices, American Journal of Mathematics 12: 337 via Hathi Trust
  • 1891: "On certain Identities in the Theory of Matrices", American Journal of Mathematics 13
  • 1891: "On the application to matrices of any order of the quaternion symbols S and V", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 22
  • 1891: "On certain properties of symmetric, skew-symmetric and orthogonal matrices", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 22
  • 1891: "On the matrical equation φ Ω = Ω φ", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 18
  • 1891: "On a theorem of Sylvester's relating to non-degenerate matrices", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science 19
  • 1892: "Note on representation of orthogonal matrices", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science 19
  • 1893: "On real orthogonal substitution", Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Science 20
  • 1893: "On the linear transformations between two quadrics", Journal of the London Mathematical Society 24
  • 1894: "On orthogonal substitutions that can be expressed as a function of a single alternate (or skew-symmetric) substitution", American Journal of Mathematics 16

References
  1. Cooke & Rickey 1989, p. 44.
  2. Pietarinen & Chevalier 2014, p. 23.
  3. Cooke & Rickey 1989, p. 45.
  4. Cooke & Rickey 1989, p. 50.
  5. Cooke & Rickey 1989, p. 58.
  6. Henry Taber in Bibliographica Hopkinsiensis via Google Books

Bibliography
  • Cooke, Roger; Rickey, V. Frederick (1989). "W. E. Story of Hopkins and Clark". In Peter Duren (ed.). A century of mathematics in America. Part 3. American Mathematical Society. pp. 29–76. ISBN 0-8218-0136-8.
  • Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko; Chevalier, Jean Marie (2014). "The Johns Hopkins Metaphysical Club and Its Impact on the Development of the Philosophy and Methodology of Sciences in the Late 19th-Century United States". Commens Working Papers (2): 1–26. ISSN 2342-4532.
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