James Henry Weaver (10 June 1883 in
Madison County, Ohio – 7 April 1942 in
Franklin County, Ohio
Franklin County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,323,807, making it the most populous county in Ohio. Most of its land area is taken up by its county seat, Columbus, the state capital and most ...
) was an American mathematician.
Weaver received B.A. in 1908 from
Otterbein College
Otterbein University is a private university in Westerville, Ohio. It offers 74 majors and 44 minors as well as eight graduate programs. The university was founded in 1847 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ and named for United Bre ...
and M.A. in 1911 from
Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...
. He was a teaching assistant at Ohio State University from 1910 to 1912. He entered the mathematics doctoral program at the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
in 1912 and graduated there in 1916 with advisor Maurice Babb and thesis ''Some Extensions of the Work of Pappus and Steiner on Tangent Circles''.
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From 1912 to 1917 he was head of the mathematics department of West Chester High School in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He became an instructor in 1917 and in 1920 an assistant professor at Ohio State University.]
Selected publications
* (See Pappus of Alexandria
Pappus of Alexandria (; grc-gre, Πάππος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; AD) was one of the last great Greek mathematicians of antiquity known for his ''Synagoge'' (Συναγωγή) or ''Collection'' (), and for Pappus's hexagon theorem i ...
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* (See angle trisection.)
* (See Platonic solid
In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent (identical in shape and size) regular polygons (all angles congruent and all e ...
.)
* (See doubling the cube
Doubling the cube, also known as the Delian problem, is an ancient geometric problem. Given the edge of a cube, the problem requires the construction of the edge of a second cube whose volume is double that of the first. As with the related probl ...
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* (See Steiner chain
In geometry, a Steiner chain is a set of circles, all of which are tangent to two given non-intersecting circles (blue and red in Figure 1), where is finite and each circle in the chain is tangent to the previous and next circles in the chain. ...
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* (See strophoid.)
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*with R. D. Carmichael:
*with R. D. Carmichael and Lincoln LaPaz
Lincoln LaPaz (February 12, 1897 – October 19, 1985) was an American astronomer from the University of New Mexico and a pioneer in the study of meteors.
Early life and education
He was born in Wichita, Kansas on February 12, 1897 to Charles Me ...
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* (See Tschirnhausen cubic
In algebraic geometry, the Tschirnhausen cubic, or Tschirnhaus' cubic is a plane curve defined, in its left-opening form, by the polar equation
:r = a\sec^3 \left(\frac\right)
where is the secant function.
History
The curve was studied by von ...
.)
References
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20th-century American mathematicians
Otterbein University alumni
Ohio State University alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Ohio State University faculty
1883 births
1942 deaths