Angus Ellis Taylor (October 13, 1911 – April 6, 1999) was a

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and professor at various universities in the

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. He earned his undergraduate degree at

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''summa cum laude'' in 1933 and his PhD at

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in 1936 under Aristotle Michal with a dissertation on

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s. By 1944 he had risen to full professor at

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, whose mathematics department he later chaired (1958–1964). Taylor was also an astute administrator and eventually rose through the UC system to become provost and then chancellor of UC Santa Cruz. He authored a number of mathematical texts, one of which, ''Advanced Calculus (1955 originally published by Ginn/Blaisdell)'', became a standard for a generation of mathematics students.

Books

* * Sherwood, G. E. F.; Taylor, Angus E. (1942; 3rd ed., 1954). ''Calculus''. Prentice-Hall * * * * *

References

External links

Personal website
at University of California, Berkeley *
Obituary
in the

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Photographs of Angus Taylor from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections
1911 births 1999 deaths Harvard University alumni 20th-century American mathematicians Chancellors of the University of California, Santa Cruz 20th-century American academics {{US-mathematician-stub