Angus Ellis Taylor Explained

Angus Ellis Taylor
Birth Place:	Craig, Colorado, U.S
Death Place:	Berkeley, California, U.S.
Fields:	Spectral theory
Alma Mater:	Caltech
Doctoral Advisor:	Aristotle Michal
Thesis Title:	Analytic Functions in General Analysis
Thesis Year:	1936

Angus Ellis Taylor (October 13, 1911 – April 6, 1999) was a mathematician and professor at various universities in the University of California system.^[1] He earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard summa cum laude in 1933 and his PhD at Caltech in 1936 under Aristotle Michal with a dissertation on analytic functions. By 1944 he had risen to full professor at UCLA, 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.^[2]

Books

• Book: Taylor . Angus E. . Advanced Calculus . Mann . William Robert . 1983 . Wiley . 978-0-471-02566-5 . 3rd . New York . en.
• Sherwood, G. E. F.; Taylor, Angus E. (1942; 3rd ed., 1954). Calculus. Prentice-Hall
• Book: Taylor . Angus E. . Introduction to functional analysis . Lay . David C. . 1980 . Wiley . 978-0-471-84646-8 . 2nd . New York. Book: 1st edition. 1958. ^[3]
• Book: Taylor, Angus E. . Calculus with analytic geometry . 2009 . Ishi Press . 978-0-923891-24-4 . 1 . New York.
• Book: Taylor, Angus E. . Calculus with analytic geometry . 2009 . Ishi Press . 978-0-923891-25-1 . 2 . New York.
• Book: Taylor, Angus E. . General theory of functions and integration . 2009 . Dover Publ . 978-0-486-64988-7 . Nachdr. . Dover books on mathematics . Mineola, NY. ^[4] Book: 1st edition. 1965. Blaisdell.
• Book: Taylor, Angus E . Speaking freely: a scholar's memoir of experience in the University of California, 1938-1967 . 2000 . Institute of Governmental Studies Press, University of California, Berkeley . 978-0-87772-393-6 . Berkeley.

External links

• Personal website at University of California, Berkeley
  • Obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle
• Photographs of Angus Taylor from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections

Notes and References

1. Taylor . Angus E. . 1984 . A Life in Mathematics Remembered . The American Mathematical Monthly . 91 . 10 . 605–618 . 10.2307/2323362. 2323362 .
2. News: Angus E. Taylor. University of California. 2009-08-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20100601162242/http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/AngusE.Taylor.htm. 2010-06-01. dead.
3. 10.1017/S0008439500025327 . Review of An Introduction to Functional Analysis, by Angus E. Taylor. 1960 . Trotter . H. F. . Hale Trotter. Canadian Mathematical Bulletin . 3 . 2 . 91–93 . 227732304 . free .
4. Web site: Berg, Michael. August 18, 2011. Review of General Theory of Functions and Integrations by Angus E. Taylor. MAA Review, Mathematical Association of America .