James Harkness

James Harkness (* 1864 in Derby (Derbyshire ), England; † December 1923 ) was a Canadian mathematician.

Life and work

Harkness attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and then went to the USA. He was from 1888 to 1903 at Bryn Mawr College, from 1896 as a mathematics professor. From 1903 he was Professor of Pure Mathematics at McGill University in Montreal.

He was a member of the London Mathematical Society, the Royal Society of Canada ( 1908 ) and the American Mathematical Society, the Vice President, he was at times, and which he published with Transactions.

Harkness worked on function theory, wrote two textbooks with Frank Morley ( a math professor at the nearby Bryn Mawr nearby Haverford College, who had also studied at Cambridge ) and worked with Robert Fricke and Wilhelm Wirtinger on products of elliptic functions of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences.

Writings

  • With Frank Morley Introduction to the theory of analytic functions, 1898

Swell

  • Mathematicians (19th Century )
  • University teachers (Philadelphia )
  • University teachers ( McGill University)
  • Canadian
  • Member of the Royal Society of Canada
  • Born in 1864
  • Died in 1923
  • Man
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