Andrew Hugh Wallace (1926 – 18 January 2008) was a Scottish-American mathematician.

Biography

Andrew Hugh Wallace was born and raised in

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, Scotland. He received in 1946 an MA in mathematics from Edinburgh University and in 1949 a PhD from

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with thesis ''Rational integral functions and associated linear transformations''. In the 1950s he was an assistant professor of mathematics at the

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in Canada. In 1959 he became a professor at

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's mathematics department, where he was also department chair. In 1965 he left Indiana to become a mathematics professor at the

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, where he remained until his retirement as professor emeritus in 1986. For the academic year 1964–1965 and the first five months of 1968 he was a visiting scholar at the

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. In addition to his work in mathematics, Andrew Wallace was an accomplished pianist, dancer, painter, and sailor. His greatest passion during his later life was sailing. He maintained a 35-foot craft. After his retirement, he and a small crew sailed his boat across the Atlantic and Mediterranean to his new home in Crete. He lived in Crete with his second wife Dimitra until he died in 2008. Upon his death he was survived by his first wife, Angela Wallace (now Angela Kern) and three daughters: Linda Kipp, Susan George, and Corinne Summers. He was also survived by his second wife, Dimitra Chilari and a step-daughter, Irene Chilari. His name is attached to the Lickorish-Wallace theorem.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallace, Alexander Hugh 1926 births 2008 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Scottish mathematicians Topologists Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of St Andrews Academic staff of the University of Toronto Indiana University faculty University of Pennsylvania faculty Mathematicians at the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Scientists from Edinburgh Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize winners