| George Anthony Hill | |
| Birth Date: | 25 August 1842 |
| Birth Place: | Sherborn, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Resting Place: | Sherborn, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation: | College professor, private tutor, textbook writer |
| Known For: | Textbooks on physics and mathematics |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard University |
George Anthony Hill (August 25, 1842 – August 17, 1916) was an American assistant professor at Harvard and author of textbooks, primarily about physics and mathematics.
Hill was born in 1842 in Sherborn, Massachusetts. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1865, and a master's degree there in 1870.[1] [2] His education included time spent at the University of Glasgow studying under Lord Kelvin.
Hill was appointed an assistant professor of physics at Harvard, effective September 1, 1871,[3] a role he held until 1876. He then spent two years studying in Germany.[4] Upon his return, he focused on writing textbooks while also acting as a private tutor at Harvard. In 1898, he became director of a tutoring school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he worked for 16 years until his retirement in 1914.
Hill wrote various textbooks, primarily on physics and mathematics. At the time of his death, The Boston Post noted that some of Hill's textbooks were "standard works, particularly his first book, Geometry for Beginners, written in 1880." Hill co-wrote some textbooks with George A. Wentworth (1835–1906), a teacher of mathematics at Phillips Exeter Academy.[5] [6]
Hill died in August 1916 in a hospital in Cambridge.[6] He was survived by a sister, Lizzie J. Daniels, and by his former wife, Annie M. Hill, who had divorced him in 1898.[7] There is no indication that the Hills had children. His estate was valued at $28,000 .[8] Hill was buried in his hometown of Sherborn.[9]
Hill's textbooks include:[10]