Cecil J. Nesbitt
{{Short description|Canadian mathematician (1912–2001)}}
Cecil James Nesbitt, Ph.D., F.S.A., M.A.A.A. (1912–2001) was a mathematician who was a Ph.D. student of Richard Brauer and wrote many influential papers in the early history of modular representation theory.
Nesbitt taught actuarial mathematics at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1980. Nesbitt was born in Ontario, Canada. He received his mathematical education at the University of Toronto and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He served the Society of Actuaries from 1985 to 1987 as Vice-President for Research and Studies. He developed the Schuette–Nesbitt formula with Donald R. Schuette.
Selected publications
- with Richard Brauer: {{cite book|year=1937|publisher=University of Toronto studies|title=On the modular representations of groups of finite order}}
- with Emil Artin and Robert M. Thrall: {{cite book|title=Rings with minimum condition. No. 1.|location=Ann Arbor|publisher=University of Michigan Press|year=1944}}{{cite journal|author=Schilling, O. F. G.|title=Review: Rings with minimum condition by Emil Artin, Cecil J. Nesbitt and Robert M. Thrall|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1945|volume=51|pages=510–512|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1945-08398-0|doi-access=free}}
- with R. M. Thrall: {{cite journal|title=Some ring theorems with applications to modular representations|journal=Annals of Mathematics|year=1946|pages=551–567|volume=47 |doi=10.2307/1969092}}
- with George H. Andrews: {{cite journal|title=Periodograms of graduation operators|journal=Transactions of the Society of Actuaries|volume=17|year=1965|pages=166–177}}
- with J. J. McCutcheon: {{cite journal|title=Actuarial Note: Further remarks on the basic mortality functions|journal=Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries|year=1971|volume=33|issue=238|pages=81–91|jstor=41218645}}
- with Newton L. Bowers and James C. Hickman: {{cite journal|title=Notes on the dynamics of pension funding|journal=Insurance: Mathematics and Economics|volume=1|issue=4|year=1982|pages=261–270|doi=10.1016/0167-6687(82)90026-9|url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/23851/1/0000090.pdf|hdl=2027.42/23851|hdl-access=free}}
- {{cite book|chapter=Personal reflections on actuarial science in North America from 1900|title=A Century of Mathematics in America, Part III|year=1989|pages=617–38}}
- with Marjorie V. Butcher: Mathematics of Compound Interest. Ulrichs Books. 1971.
See also
References
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- Newton L. Bowers, Hans U. Gerber, James C. Hickman, Donald A. Jones, Cecil J. Nesbitt: Actuarial Mathematics. (2nd ed.), 1997, The Society of Actuaries {{ISBN|0-938959-46-8}}.
- Charles W. Curtis: Pioneers of Representation Theory. 1999, American Mathematical Society {{ISBN|978-0-8218-2677-5}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110612061546/http://www.soa.org/about/membership/about-deceased-members-2001-cecil-nesbitt.aspx Society of Actuaries' obituary] accessed 2007-11-23
External links
- {{Mathgenealogy|name = Cecil James Nesbitt|id = 7749}}
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Category:20th-century American mathematicians