Charles W. Curtis

Charles Whittlesey Curtis ( born 1926 ) is an American mathematician who deals with algebra.

Curtis studied at Bowdoin College (Bachelor 1948) and in 1951 at Yale University in Nathan Jacobson PhD ( additives Ideal Theory in General Rings ) He was from 1954 to 1963 professor at the University of Wisconsin -Madison and then a professor at the University of Oregon.

In 1954/55 and 1968/69 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

His book, Irving Reiner on representation theory of finite groups and related algebras was for many years a standard work and made both known. He also published a book on the history of the representation theory of groups and algebras to about 1960.

In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

  • With Irving Reiner Representation theory of finite groups and associated algebras, Wiley 1962, new edition 1981/82 in two volumes
  • Pioneers in Representation Theory: Frobenius, Burnside, Schur and Brauer, American Mathematical Society 1999
  • Modular Lie Algebras, 1.2, Transactions AMS, Volume 82, 1956, 160-179, Vol 86, 1957, 91-108
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