George A. Miller (other)
George A. Miller may refer to: * George Abram Miller (1863-1951), mathematician * George Armitage Miller (1920–2012), professor of psychology * George Arthur Miller (1867–1935), British Olympic polo player See also *George Miller (other) George Miller may refer to: Entertainment *George Miller (comedian) (1941–2003), American comedian * George Miller (filmmaker) (born 1945), Australian film director, producer and screenwriter *George T. Miller (1943–2023), Australian film and ...

George Abram Miller
George Abram Miller (31 July 1863 – 10 February 1951) was an early group theorist. At age 17 Miller began school-teaching to raise funds for higher education. In 1882 he entered Franklin and Marshall Academy, and progressed to Muhlenberg College in 1884. He received his B.A. in 1887 and M.A. in 1890. While a graduate student, Miller was Principal of schools in Greeley, Kansas and then professor of mathematics as Eureka College in Eureka, Illinois. He corresponded with Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee for his Ph.D. in 1892. He then joined Frank Nelson Cole at University of Michigan and began to study groups. In 1895 he went to Europe where he heard Sophus Lie lecture at Leipzig and Camille Jordan at Paris. In 1897 he went to Cornell University as an assistant professor, and in 1901 to Stanford University as associate professor. In 1906 he went to University of Illinois where he taught until retirement in 1931. Henry Roy Brahana (1957) Miller helped in the e ...
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George Armitage Miller
George Armitage Miller (February 3, 1920 – July 22, 2012) was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science. He also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics. Miller wrote several books and directed the development of WordNet, an online word-linkage database usable by computer programs. He authored the paper, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two," in which he observed that many different experimental findings considered together reveal the presence of an average limit of seven for human short-term memory capacity. This paper is frequently cited by psychologists and in the wider culture. Miller won numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science. Miller began his career when the reigning theory in psychology was behaviorism, which eschewed the study of mental processes and focused on observable behavior. Rejecting this approach, Miller devised experimental techniques and mathematical ...
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George Arthur Miller
George Arthur Miller (6 December 1867 – 21 February 1935), was a British polo player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics as a member of the British polo team ''Roehampton'', which won the gold medal. Miller was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge .... References External linksprofile* 1867 births 1935 deaths English polo players English Olympic medallists Polo players at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic polo players for Great Britain Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge International Polo Cup Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in polo {{UK-polo-bio-stub ...
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