Henry Taber Explained

Henry Taber
Birth Date:10 June 1860
Birth Place:Staten Island, New York, US
Spouse:Fanny Lawrence (†1892)
Field:Mathematics
Work Institutions:Clark University
Alma Mater:Sheffield Scientific School
Johns Hopkins University
Thesis Title:On Clifford's n-fold Algebras
Thesis Url:https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59184767
Thesis Year:1886
Doctoral Advisor:William Edward Story
Doctoral Students:William Metzler
Stephen Elmer Slocum

Henry Taber (1860–1936) was an American mathematician.

Biography

Taber studied mechanical engineering at Sheffield Scientific School from 1877 to 1882. Then, he went to Baltimore to study mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, under Charles Sanders Peirce and William Edward Story. He was awarded a doctorate in 1888, with a dissertation most likely tutored by Story.

The following year he was assistant professor at Johns Hopkins, but in 1889, on Clark University's foundation hiring his teacher and friend, Story, he went also to Clark. Both remained at Clark as mathematics professors until retirement in 1921.

His brother, Robert Taber, was a well known Broadway theatre actor.

Taber popularized linear algebra as expressed with matrices, in particular the symmetric matrix, skew-symmetric matrix, and orthogonal matrix.

Works

The papers by Henry Taber have been listed by Bibliographica Hopkinsiensis[1]

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Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=BvXNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA158 Henry Taber