The Thomas A. Scott Professorship of Mathematics is an academic grant made to the University of Pennsylvania. It was established in 1881 by the railroad executive and financier Thomas Alexander Scott.[1]
Recipients[edit]
- Ezra Otis Kendall, 1881–1899[2]
- Edwin Schofield Crawley, 1899–1933[2][3][4][5]
- George Hervey Hallett, 1933–1941[6]
- John Robert Kline, 1941–1955[6]
- Hans A. Rademacher, 1956–1962[6]
- Eugenio Calabi, 1967–1993[6]
- Shmuel Weinberger, 1994–1996[6]
- Herbert S. Wilf, 1998–2006[6]
- Charles Epstein, 2008–present[6]
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References[edit]
- ^ Nitzsche, George Erasmus (1918), University of Pennsylvania: Its History, Traditions, Buildings and Memorials; Also a Brief Guide to Philadelphia (7th ed.), Philadelphia: International Printing Company, p. 238, OCLC 65488397
- ^ a b "Faculty History: 1750–1899". University of Pennsylvania Department of Mathematics. Archived from the original on May 9, 2008. Retrieved April 18, 2008.
- ^ Pennsylvania, University of (1899), Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania 1899–1900, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, p. 27, OCLC 183432992
- ^ Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania 1915–1916, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1915, p. 32, OCLC 183432992
- ^ Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania 1921–1922, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1921, p. 26, OCLC 183432992
- ^ a b c d e f g "Thomas A. Scott Professorship in Mathematics". University of Pennsylvania Department of Mathematics. Archived from the original on May 11, 2008. Retrieved April 18, 2008.