- Frank Morley
Frank Morley (
September 9 ,1860 –October 17 ,1937 ) was a leadingmathematician , known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields ofalgebra andgeometry . Among his mathematical accomplishments was the discovery and proof of the celebratedMorley's trisector theorem in elementary plane geometry.He lead 50 Ph.D.s to their degrees, so he was:...one of the more striking figures of the relatively small group of men who initiated that development which, within his own lifetime, brought Mathematics in America from a minor position to its present place in the sun."(Coble, 1938).Morley was born in the town of Woodbridge in
Suffolk ,England . His parents were Elizabeth Muskett and Joseph Roberts Morley, Quakers who ran a china shop. After being educated atWoodbridge School , Morley received his Sc.D. degree from Cambridge University and moved toPennsylvania in 1887. He taught atHaverford College until 1900, when he became chairman of the mathematics department atJohns Hopkins University . His publications include "Elementary Treatise on the Theory of Functions." (1893), withJames Harkness ; and "Introduction to the Theory of Analytic Functions" (1898).New International Encyclopedia He was President of theAmerican Mathematical Society from 1919 to 1920 and was the editor of the "American Journal of Mathematics " from 1900 to 1921. In 1933 he and his son Frank Vigor published the "stimulating volume" "Inversive Geometry".He was a strong
chess player and once beat fellow mathematician and then world championEmmanuel Lasker in a game of chess.He died in
Baltimore, Maryland .His sons are novelist
Christopher Morley ,Pulitzer Prize winnerFelix Morley , and another mathematicianFrank Vigor Morley .References
* Arthur B. Coble, " [http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183500344 Frank Morley—In memoriam] ", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 44, (1938), pp. 167–170.
* R.C. Archibald, "A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society (1888 - 1938)", Chapter 15: The Presidents: #15 Morley 1919-20. pp.194-201, includes bibliography of Morley's papers.External links
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* Frank Morley and James Harkness [http://www.archive.org/details/treatiseontheory00harkuoft A treatise on the theory of functions] (New York: Macmillan, 1893)
* Frank Morley and James Harkness [http://www.archive.org/details/introductiontoth032100mbp Introduction To The Theory of Analytic Functions] (G.E.Stechert And Company, 1898)
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