University of California , Los Angeles
Which employer did Earle Raymond Hedrick work for from 1920 to 1942?
Earle Raymond Hedrick Earle Raymond Hedrick ( September 27 , 1876 – February 3 , 1943 ) , was an American mathematician and a vice-president of the University of California . Education and career . Hedrick was born in Union City , Indiana . After undergraduate work at the University of Michigan , he obtained a Master of Arts from Harvard University . With a Parker fellowship , he went to Europe and obtained his PhD from Göttingen University in Germany under the supervision of David Hilbert in 1901 . He then spent several months at the École Normale Supérieure in France , where he became acquainted with Édouard Goursat , Jacques Hadamard , Jules Tannery , Émile Picard and Paul Émile Appell , before becoming an instructor at Yale University . In 1903 , he became professor at the University of Missouri . He moved in 1920 to the University of California , Los Angeles to become head of the department of mathematics . In 1933 , he was giving the first graduate lecture on mathematics at UCLA . He became provost and vice-president of the University of California in 1937 . He humorously called his appointment The Accident , and told jokingly after this event , I no longer have any intellectual interests —I just sit and talk to people . He played in fact a very important role in making of the University of California a leading institution . He retired from the UCLA faculty in 1942 and accepted a visiting professorship at Brown University . Soon after the beginning of this new appointment , he suffered a lung infection . He died at the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence , Rhode Island . Two UCLA residence halls have been named after him : Hedrick Hall in 1963 , and Hedrick Summit in 2005 . Research . Earle Raymond Hedrick worked on partial differential equations and on the theory of non-analytic functions of complex variables . He also did work in applied mathematics , in particular on a generalization of Hookes law and on transmission of heat in steam boilers . With Oliver Dimon Kellogg he authored a text on the applications of calculus to mechanics . Pedagogical activity . Earle Raymond Hedrick translated in English the Cours dAnalyse of Édouard Goursat providing American students with an up-to-date ( for the beginning of the twentieth century ) textbook of analysis . He also translated the first part of the textbook of Felix Klein Elementarmathematik vom höheren Standpunkte aus in English . His activity in the Mathematical Association of America and in the National Council of Mathematics Teachers had also an important impact on mathematics education in the United States . He also authored or co-authored various textbooks of mathematics , and was general editor of the Series of Mathematical Texts which comprises about 40 volumes . Administrative activities . Earle Raymond Hedrick was involved in the creation of the Mathematical Association of America in 1916 and was its first president . The Earle Raymond Hedrick lectures were established by the Mathematical Association in America in his honor . He also served as vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , and played an important role at the American Mathematical Society both as president ( 1929-1930 ) and as editor of the Bulletin of the Americal Mathematical Society , a role he assumed during 17 years . He also worked as editor for the Engineering Science Series . Professional societies . Besides the societies where Earl Raymond Hedrick had important administrative activities , he was also member of : - Society for the Promotion of Electrical Engineering - American Society of Mechanical Engineers - American Institute of Electrical Engineers Textbooks . - Applications of the calculus to mechanics with Oliver Dimon Kellogg ( Boston : Ginn , 1909 ) - Solid Geometry with Walter Burton Ford and Charles Ammerman ( New York : Macmillan , 1913 ) - Analytic geometry and principles of algebra with Alexander Ziwet ( New York : Macmillan , 1913 ) - Constructive geometry ; exercises in elementary geometric drawing ( New York : Macmillan , 1916 ) - Logarithmic and trigonometric tables ( New York : Macmillan , 1920 ) References . - Earle Raymond Hedrick : Mactutor biography - University of California : In Memoriam , Earle Raymond Hedrick , Mathematics : Los Angeles and Systemwide - The Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecturers - Earle Raymond Hedrick : UCLAs past leaders - The mathematics department at UCLA ane Earl Raymond Hedrick - AMS Presidents : A Timeline Earl Raymond Hedrick - <a R . Hedrick collection , Archives of American Mathematics , Center for American History , The University of Texas at Austin</a> - Paul Ehrlich Kellogg , Bliss , Hedrick Mizzou Math Pioneers - Paul Ehrlich Hedrick in Missouri - Virgil Snyder , Earle Raymond Hedrick , Science 97 , 214 ( 1943 ) - Virgil Snyder , Earle Raymond Hedrick—In memoriam , Bull . Amer . Math . Soc . 49 , 345 ( 1943 ) . - W . B . Ford Earle Raymond Hedrick The American Mathematical Monthly , 50 , 409 ( 1943 ) .