Angus Ellis Taylor

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|birth_date = {{birth-date|13 October 1911}}

|birth_place = Craig, Colorado, U.S

|death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1999|04|06|1911|10|13}}

|death_place = Berkeley, California, U.S.

|fields = Spectral theory

|workplaces = {{ubl|UCLA| UC Santa Cruz}}

|alma_mater = Caltech

|doctoral_advisor = Aristotle Michal

|thesis_title = Analytic Functions in General Analysis

|thesis_year = 1936

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Angus Ellis Taylor (October 13, 1911 – April 6, 1999) was a mathematician and professor at various universities in the University of California system.{{Cite journal |last=Taylor |first=Angus E. |date=1984 |title=A Life in Mathematics Remembered |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2323362 |journal=The American Mathematical Monthly |volume=91 |issue=10 |pages=605–618 |doi=10.2307/2323362|jstor=2323362 |url-access=subscription }} 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.{{cite news|title=Angus E. Taylor|url=http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/AngusE.Taylor.htm|publisher=University of California|access-date=2009-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601162242/http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/AngusE.Taylor.htm|archive-date=2010-06-01|url-status=dead}}

Books

{{Cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Angus E. |title=Advanced Calculus |last2=Mann |first2=William Robert |date=1983 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-02566-5 |edition=3rd |location=New York |language=en}}
Sherwood, G. E. F.; Taylor, Angus E. (1942; 3rd ed., 1954). Calculus. Prentice-Hall
{{Cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Angus E. |title=Introduction to functional analysis |last2=Lay |first2=David C. |date=1980 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-471-84646-8 |edition=2nd |location=New York}} {{cite book|title=1st edition|year=1958}}{{cite journal|doi=10.1017/S0008439500025327 |title=Review of An Introduction to Functional Analysis, by Angus E. Taylor|date=1960 |last1=Trotter |first1=H. F. |author-link=Hale Trotter|journal=Canadian Mathematical Bulletin |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=91–93 |s2cid=227732304 |doi-access=free }}
{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Angus E. |title=Calculus with analytic geometry |date=2009 |publisher=Ishi Press |isbn=978-0-923891-24-4 |volume=1 |location=New York}}
{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Angus E. |title=Calculus with analytic geometry |date=2009 |publisher=Ishi Press |isbn=978-0-923891-25-1 |volume=2 |location=New York}}
{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Angus E. |title=General theory of functions and integration |date=2009 |publisher=Dover Publ |isbn=978-0-486-64988-7 |edition=Nachdr. |series=Dover books on mathematics |location=Mineola, NY}}{{cite web|author=Berg, Michael|date=August 18, 2011|url=https://maa.org/press/maa-reviews/general-theory-of-functions-and-integrations |title=Review of General Theory of Functions and Integrations by Angus E. Taylor|website=MAA Review, Mathematical Association of America }} {{cite book|title=1st edition|year=1965|publisher=Blaisdell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gfd84tA7PXcC}}
{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Angus E |title=Speaking freely: a scholar's memoir of experience in the University of California, 1938-1967 |date=2000 |publisher=Institute of Governmental Studies Press, University of California, Berkeley |isbn=978-0-87772-393-6 |location=Berkeley}}

References

External links

[https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/angus-e-taylor Personal website] at University of California, Berkeley
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[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/04/15/MN71789.DTL Obituary] in the San Francisco Chronicle
[http://digitalcollections.ucsc.edu/cdm/search/collection/p265101coll25/searchterm/Angus%20Taylor/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/order/title Photographs of Angus Taylor from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections]

Category:1911 births

Category:1999 deaths

Category:Harvard University alumni

Category:20th-century American mathematicians

Category:Chancellors of the University of California, Santa Cruz

Category:20th-century American academics