Claiborne Latimer

Claiborne Green Latimer (1893–1960) was an American mathematician, known for the Latimer–MacDuffee theorem.[1]

Career

Latimer earned his PhD in 1924 from the University of Chicago under Leonard Dickson with thesis Arithmetic of Generalized Quaternion Algebras.[2] He was an assistant professor at Tulane University for 2 years,[3] before becoming a mathematics professor at the University of Kentucky in 1927. After 20 years at the University of Kentucky, he resigned in 1947 and became a professor at Emory University.[4] Latimer was an amateur photographer; some of his photographs are preserved in the archives of the University of Kentucky and Emory University.[5]

References
  1. Claiborne Latimer; C. C. MacDuffee (1933). "A Correspondence Between Classes of Ideals and Classes of Matrices". The Annals of Mathematics. 34 (2): 317–338. doi:10.2307/1968204. JSTOR 1968204.
  2. Claiborne Latimer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Farmers Advocate. Charles Town, West Virginia: 1. June 4, 1927. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "Dr. Latimer Resigns". Farmers Advocate. Charles Town, West Virginia: 5. April 4, 1947.
  5. Edward Fisk from edwardfisk.com


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