Cecil J. Nesbitt

Cecil James Nesbitt ( born October 10, 1912 in Fort William, Ontario; † 22 October 2001) was a Canadian-American mathematician.

Nesbitt grew up in Edmonton on, where his family moved in 1922, where he made his 1929 high school graduation. He studied from 1930 at the University of Toronto with a Bachelor 's degree in 1934 and a master's degree 1935., 1937, he was there with Richard Brauer PhD ( On the regular representations of algebras ). As a post - graduate student, he was 1937/38, on the recommendation of Brauer at the Institute for Advanced Study. From 1938 he was at the University of Michigan, where he was an assistant professor in 1941, associate professor in 1946 and professor in 1952. 1960/61 and 1970/71 he was faced with the mathematics faculty and 1962 to 1967 he was Deputy Faculty Board. In 1980 he retired.

Initially he worked on algebra and representation theory, which led, among other things several papers in the Annals of Mathematics and a book of Emil Artin on Artin rings. Later he turned to the insurance mathematics, which he wrote a standard work with co-authors 1986.

With his PhD (1963 ) Donald R. Schuette, he developed the Schuette - Nesbitt formula in insurance mathematics. He trained many leading actuaries ( and several subsequent presidents of insurance companies in the U.S.).

Nesbitt worked well in practice, for example in the successful consultation of the Pension Fund of the University of Michigan and developed pension fund plans for government employees in Puerto Rico and Costa Rica.

From 1985 to 1987 he was Vice- President of the Society of Actuaries, whose fellow he was in 1946. In 1988 he received the Distinguished Faculty Governance Award from the University of Michigan.

He was married in 1938 and had two sons, who both died early from cystic fibrosis. Since 1946 he was a U.S. citizen.

Writings

• Emil Artin with Robert M. Thrall, Rings with minimum condition, University of Michigan Press 1944
• With Marjorie Butcher Mathematics of Compound Interest, Ulrich's Books 1971
• Newton L. Bowers, Hans U. Gerber, James C. Hickman, Donald A. Jones Actuarial Mathematics, Society of Actuaries, 1986, 2nd edition 1997