Harley Flanders

Harley Flanders (* September 13, 1925; † July 26, 2013 ) was an American mathematician, known as the author of several textbooks.

Flanders studied at the University of Chicago, where in 1947 he took his master's degree and doctorate in 1949 with Otto Franz Georg Schilling and André Weil ( Unification of Class Field Theory). After that, he was at Caltech (as Bateman Fellow ) at the University of Berkeley and from 1960 professor at Purdue University. 1970 to 1977 he was at the University of Tel Aviv. 1977 to 1978 he was a visiting professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, 1978-1985 Visiting Scholar at Florida Atlantic University, from 1985 to 1997 and from 2000 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from 1997 to 2000 at the University of North Florida, while at the Jacksonville State University ( Distinguished Mathematician in Residence ), both in Jacksonville (Florida ).

Flanders dealt first with algebra and algebraic number theory, then by linear algebra, differential forms, differential geometry, mathematical theory of electrical networks and scientific computing. He was also a software developer and wrote in 1975 the pedagogical analysis software MicroCalc.

1969 to 1973 he was editor of the American Mathematical Monthly. In 1969 he was awarded the Lester Randolph Ford Award ( for A proof of Minkowski 's inequality for convex curves, Amer. Mathematical Monthly, Vol 75, 1968, pp. 581-593 ).

He published the lectures on continuous groups of Charles Loewner with Murray H. Protter.

Writings

  • Differential forms with applications to the physical sciences, Academic Press 1963, Dover 1989
  • Differential Forms in SS Chern (Editor) Studies in Global Geometry and Analysis, Mathematical Association of America, 1967, edited edition 1989
  • Development of an extended exterior differential calculus, Transactions American Mathematical Society, Bd.75, 1953, pp. 311-326
  • Justin R. Price: Algebra, Academic Press, 1975, Saunders College Publ 1981
  • With Price: Trigonometry, Academic Press, 1975, 2nd edition Saunders College Publications, 1982
  • Same: Algebra and Trigonometry, Academic Press, 1975, Saunders College Publ 1981
  • Same: College Algebra, Saunders College Publ, 1982
  • Same: Precalculus Mathematics, Saunders College Publ 1981
  • Same: Elementary Functions and analytic geometry, Academic Press 1973
  • Same: Introductory College Mathematics: Linear Algebra and Finite Mathematics with, Academic Press 1973
  • Same: Calculus with analytic geometry, Academic Press 1978
  • Same, Robert Korfhage: First course in calculus with analytic geometry, Academic Press 1973
  • Same, Robert Korfhage: Calculus, Academic Press 1970
  • Same, Korfhage: A second course in Calculus, Academic Press 1974
  • Calculus, Freeman 1985
  • Single Variable Calculus, Freeman 1985
  • Calculus: a Lab Course with MicroCalc, Springer 1996
  • Scientific Pascal, Reston Publ. 1984, 2nd edition, Birkhäuser 1996
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