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

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and professor at various universities in the University of California system. He earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard ''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

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. 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