Arthur Herbert Copeland

Arthur Herbert Copeland ( born June 22, 1898 in Rochester, New York, † July 6, 1970 ) was an American mathematician.

Copeland studied at Amherst College ( BA 1921) and in 1926 received his doctorate at Harvard University in Oliver Kellogg over roundabout ( Studies on the gyroscope ). 1922/23, he was instructor at Harvard and from 1924 to 1928 at Rice University. In 1928, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Buffalo and 1929 at the University of Michigan, where he was Associate Professor in 1937 and Professor in 1943. He retired in 1968.

He dealt with Analysis and Applications in mechanics, but mainly with basics of probability theory. In addition, he has published over Boolean algebras with application in probability theory and advised the U.S. Navy.

The Copeland - Erdős number is after him and Paul Erdős named ( joint publication 1946) - both proven that it is a normal number.

1935/36, he was Guggenheim Fellow. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His PhD was Howard Raiffa.

He was married to Dorothy Eleanor West since 1925 and had a son with her: Arthur Herbert Copeland Jr., a professor of mathematics at the University of New Hampshire.

Writings

  • Admissible numbers in the theory of probability, American Journal of Mathematics, Volume 50, 1928, pp. 535-552
  • The teaching of the calculus of probability, Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures 1944
  • Types of motion of the gyroscope, Transactions American Mathematical Society, Volume 30, 1928, pp. 737-764
  • Geometry, algebra, and trigonometry by vector methods, Macmillan 1962
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