Ernest Preston Lane
{{short description|American mathematician (1886–1969))}}
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|name=Ernest Preston Lane
|birth_date={{birth date|1886|11|28}}
|death_date=October 1969 (aged 82)
|nationality=American
|education=University of Tennessee
University of Virginia
University of Chicago (PhD)
|occupation=Mathematician
}}
Ernest Preston Lane (November 28, 1886, Russellville, Tennessee – October 1969) was an American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry.
Education and career
In 1909, he received his bachelor's degree in from the University of Tennessee. Later in life, he went on to receive his master's degree from the University of Virginia in 1913.{{cite web|title=Ernest Preston Lane|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/ernest-preston-lane/}} He taught mathematics at several academic institutions before receiving in 1918 from the University of Chicago his PhD under Ernest Julius Wilczynski with thesis Conjugate systems with indeterminate axis curves.{{MathGenealogy|id=6061}} Lane served as Instructor of Mathematics at Rice University from 1918 to 1919. At the University of Wisconsin Lane was from 1919 to 1923 an assistant professor. At the University of Chicago he was from 1923 to 1927 an assistant professor, from 1927 to 1928 an associate professor, and from 1928 to 1952 a full professor, retiring in 1952 as professor emeritus. He was the chair of the University of Chicago's mathematics department from 1941 to 1946.
Lane was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1926–1927. His doctoral students included Alice T. Schafer, Sun Guangyuan and Abba Verbeck Newton.Green, Judy and Jeanne LaDuke. "Supplementary Material for Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PHD'S" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-02-14.
Selected publications
- {{cite book|title=Projective differential geometry of curves and surfaces|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.214621|year=1932|publisher=University of Chicago Press}}{{cite journal|author=Emch, Arnold|authorlink=Arnold Emch|title=Review of Projective differential geometry of curves and surfaces by Ernest P. Lane|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1933|volume=39|pages=181–182|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1933-05563-5|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite book|title=Metric differential geometry of curves and surfaces|year=1930|publisher=University of Chicago Press}}{{cite journal|author=Grove, Vernon G.|title=Review of Metric differential geometry of curves and surfaces by Ernest P. Lane|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1940|volume=47|pages=192–194|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1941-07408-2|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite book|title=A treatise on projective differential geometry|year=1942|publisher=University of Chicago Press}}{{cite journal|author=Bell, P. O.|title=Review of A treatise on projective differential geometry by Ernest P. Lane|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1942|volume=49|pages=840–845|doi=10.1090/S0002-9904-1943-08018-4|doi-access=free}}
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Category:University of Tennessee alumni
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Category:20th-century American mathematicians
Category:Differential geometers
Category:People from Hamblen County, Tennessee
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