Angus Ellis Taylor

This article is about the mathematician. For other people, see Angus Taylor (disambiguation).

Angus Ellis Taylor
Born	13 October 1911 (1911-10-13) Craig, Colorado, U.S
Died	April 6, 1999(1999-04-06) (aged 87) Berkeley, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Caltech
Scientific career
Fields	Spectral theory
Institutions	UCLA UC Santa Cruz
Thesis	Analytic Functions in General Analysis  (1936)
Doctoral advisor	Aristotle Michal
Notable students	Arnold Allen Peter Swerling Edward O. Thorp

Angus Ellis Taylor (October 13, 1911 – April 6, 1999) was a mathematician and professor at various universities in the University of California system.^[1] He earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard summa cum laude in 1933 and his PhD at Caltech in 1936 under Aristotle Michal with a dissertation on analytic functions. By 1944 he had risen to full professor at UCLA, whose mathematics department he later chaired (1958–1964). Taylor was also an astute administrator and eventually rose through the UC system to become provost and then chancellor of UC Santa Cruz. He authored a number of mathematical texts, one of which, Advanced Calculus (1955 originally published by Ginn/Blaisdell), became a standard for a generation of mathematics students.^[2]

Books

• Taylor, Angus E.; Mann, William Robert (1983). Advanced Calculus (3rd ed.). New York: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-02566-5.
• Sherwood, G. E. F.; Taylor, Angus E. (1942; 3rd ed., 1954). Calculus. Prentice-Hall
• Taylor, Angus E.; Lay, David C. (1980). Introduction to functional analysis (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-84646-8. 1st edition. 1958.^[3]
• Taylor, Angus E. (2009). Calculus with analytic geometry. Vol. 1. New York: Ishi Press. ISBN 978-0-923891-24-4.
• Taylor, Angus E. (2009). Calculus with analytic geometry. Vol. 2. New York: Ishi Press. ISBN 978-0-923891-25-1.
• Taylor, Angus E. (2009). General theory of functions and integration. Dover books on mathematics (Nachdr. ed.). Mineola, NY: Dover Publ. ISBN 978-0-486-64988-7.^[4] 1st edition. Blaisdell. 1965.
• Taylor, Angus E (2000). Speaking freely: a scholar's memoir of experience in the University of California, 1938-1967. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies Press, University of California, Berkeley. ISBN 978-0-87772-393-6.

References

1. Taylor, Angus E. (1984). "A Life in Mathematics Remembered". The American Mathematical Monthly. 91 (10): 605–618. doi:10.2307/2323362. JSTOR 2323362.
2. "Angus E. Taylor". University of California. Archived from the original on 2010-06-01. Retrieved 2009-08-05.
3. Trotter, H. F. (1960). "Review of An Introduction to Functional Analysis, by Angus E. Taylor". Canadian Mathematical Bulletin. 3 (2): 91–93. doi:10.1017/S0008439500025327. S2CID 227732304.
4. Berg, Michael (August 18, 2011). "Review of General Theory of Functions and Integrations by Angus E. Taylor". MAA Review, Mathematical Association of America.

External links

• Personal website at University of California, Berkeley
• Angus Ellis Taylor at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle
• Photographs of Angus Taylor from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections