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
- Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II, III, p 245; online
- Mathematicians (19th Century )
- University teachers (Philadelphia )
- University teachers ( McGill University)
- Canadian
- Member of the Royal Society of Canada
- Born in 1864
- Died in 1923
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