David Francis Barrow ( Athens, Georgia, November 14, 1888 – February 4, 1970) was an American mathematician who introduced

Barrow's inequality In geometry, Barrow's inequality is an inequality relating the distances between an arbitrary point within a triangle, the vertices of the triangle, and certain points on the sides of the triangle. It is named after David Francis Barrow. Stateme ...

in 1937. Barrow's father,

David Crenshaw Barrow Jr. David Crenshaw "Uncle Dave" Barrow Jr. (October 18, 1852 – January 11, 1929) served as chancellor of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens from 1906 until his resignation in 1925 (The head of the university was referred to as chancell ...

, was also a mathematician, and served as chancellor of the University of Georgia from 1906 to 1925. His son, David F. Barrow, did his undergraduate studies at the University of Georgia and then studied at Harvard University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1913. After a year abroad, he taught for two years at the University of Texas, and then at the Sheffield Scientific School. After a brief stint in the U.S. armed services, he joined the faculty of his father's university in 1920. He became a full professor in 1923, and chaired the mathematics department in 1944–1945.The History of Mathematics at the University of Georgia, Department of Mathematics, the University of Georgia
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Publications

* * "Can a robot calculate the table of logarithms?". In: ''The American Mathematical Monthly'', Volume 49, No. 10 (Dec., 1942), pp. 671–673
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