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Harry Pollard (other)
Harry Pollard may refer to: * Harry Pollard (mathematician) (1919–1985), American mathematician * Harry Pollard (photographer) (1880–1968), Canadian photographer * Harry A. Pollard (1879–1934), American silent film actor, director, and screenwriter * Snub Pollard (Harry Pollard, 1889–1962), Australian-born silent movie comedian {{hndis, Pollard, Harry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Pollard (mathematician)
Harry Pollard (28 February 1919 – November 20, 1985). was an American mathematician. He received his Ph.D from Harvard University in 1942 under the supervision of David Widder. He then taught at Cornell University, and was Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University from 1961 until his death in 1985. He is known for his work on celestial mechanics, orthogonal polynomials and the n-body problem as well as for the several textbooks he authored or co-authored. In the theory of Orthogonal polynomials, Pollard solved a conjecture of Antoni Zygmund, establishing mean convergence of the partial sums in L^p norms for the Legendre polynomials and Jacobi polynomials in a series of three papers in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. The first of these papers deals with the fundamental case of Legendre polynomials In physical science and mathematics, Legendre polynomials (named after Adrien-Marie Legendre, who discovered them in 1782) are a system of complete and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Pollard (photographer)
Harry Pollard (1880–1968) was a Canadian photographer known for his photographs of First Nations peoples in Western Canada. Career Pollard was born in 1880 in Tillsonburg, Ontario. His father, James, was a photographer. In May 1899, Pollard moved to Calgary where he opened a photography studio. Among his most notable photographs are those documenting the First Nations of the Blackfoot Confederacy living in Canada – the Tsuu T'ina Nation, the Siksika Nation and the Kainai Nation. In 1924, Pollard was press photographer for Associated Screen News, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Railway. He was hired to take promotional pictures of ocean cruises, and his job took him around the world 14 times. Guelph Mercury, 11 March 2007 The Harry Pollard photograph collection is in the |
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