James Henry Weaver (10 June 1883 in
Madison County, Ohio
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– 7 April 1942 in
Franklin County, Ohio) was an American mathematician.
Weaver received B.A. in 1908 from
Otterbein College and M.A. in 1911 from
Ohio State University. He was a teaching assistant at Ohio State University from 1910 to 1912. He entered the mathematics doctoral program at the
University of Pennsylvania 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
West Chester is a borough and the county seat of Chester County, Pennsylvania. Located within the Philadelphia metropolitan area, the borough had a population of 18,461 at the 2010 census. West Chester is the mailing address for most of its neighb ...
. He became an instructor in 1917 and in 1920 an assistant professor at Ohio State University.
Selected publications
* (See Pappus of Alexandria.)
* (See angle trisection
Angle trisection is a classical problem of straightedge and compass construction of ancient Greek mathematics. It concerns construction of an angle equal to one third of a given arbitrary angle, using only two tools: an unmarked straightedge an ...
.)
* (See Platonic solid.)
* (See doubling the cube.)
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* (See Steiner chain.)
* (See strophoid
In geometry, a strophoid is a curve generated from a given curve and points (the fixed point) and (the pole) as follows: Let be a variable line passing through and intersecting at . Now let and be the two points on whose distance from ...
.)
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*with R. D. Carmichael:
*with R. D. Carmichael and Lincoln LaPaz:
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* (See Tschirnhausen cubic.)
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