Edward Vermilye Huntington

Edward Vermilye Huntington ( born April 26, 1874 in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, † November 25, 1952 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American mathematician and physicist.

Huntington studied at Harvard University, where he 1895 BA and 1897 the M. A. acquired. After two years of teaching at a college, he went to the University of Strasbourg, where he took his PhD in 1901. He spent his later professional life at Harvard, where he in 1919 became Professor of Engineering.

Huntington dealt primarily with pure mathematics. One of his priorities lay in the field of statistics. His particular interest was the foundations of mathematics. Here he dealt primarily with the axioms of set theory and Boolean algebra. Here he contributed to infix notation and showed that Boolean algebra can be built only on a two -digit shortcut. His published in 1917 book The Continuum and Other Types of Serial Order was at the time as a much-used textbook on set theory Georg Cantor.

In 1919, Huntington was the first President of the Mathematical Association of America, on whose foundation he helped. He was also a member of the 1913 American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society in 1933. He married in 1909 Suzie Edwards Van Burgh people. The marriage remained childless.