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Arthur Herbert Copeland

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Nationality
  
USA

Fields
  
Mathematics


Role
  
Mathematician

Name
  
Arthur Copeland

Arthur Herbert Copeland Arthur Herbert Copeland Faculty History Project

Institutions
  
Rice University University of Michigan

Known for
  
Copeland-Erdos constant

Died
  
July 6, 1970, Michigan, United States

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada

Doctoral students
  
Ronald Getoor, Howard Raiffa

Education
  
Harvard University (1926)

Doctoral advisor
  
Oliver Dimon Kellogg

Arthur Herbert Copeland (June 22, 1898 Rochester, New York – July 6, 1970) was an American mathematician. He graduated from Harvard University in 1926 and taught at Rice University and the University of Michigan. His main interest was in the foundations of probability.

He worked with Paul Erdős on the Copeland-Erdős constant. His son, Arthur Herbert Copeland, Jr., is also a mathematician.

Selected works

  • "Note on the Fourier development of continuous functions". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (6): 689–692. 1927. MR 1561449. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1927-04457-3. 
  • "Types of motion of the gyroscope". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (4): 737–764. 1928. MR 1501456. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1928-1501456-4. 
  • "A mixture theorem for nonconservative mechanical systems". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (12): 895–900. 1936. MR 1563461. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1936-06461-x. 
  • "Consistency of the conditions determining Kollektivs". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (3): 333–357. 1937. MR 1501925. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1937-1501925-2. 
  • "A new definition of a Stieltjes integral". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (8): 581–588. 1937. MR 1563591. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1937-06610-9. 
  • "The Teaching of the Calculus of Probability". Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures, Number 4. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 1944. pp. 31–43. 
  • with Paul Erdős: "Note on normal numbers". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (10): 857–860. 1946. MR 0017743. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1946-08657-7. 
  • with Frank Harary: "The extension of an arbitrary Boolean algebra to an implicative Boolean algebra". Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 4: 751–758. 1953. MR 0057229. doi:10.1090/s0002-9939-1953-0057229-5. 
  • Geometry, algebra, and trigonometry by vector methods. NY: Macmillan. 1962, 298 pp. 

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