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Nationality
  
United States

Role
  
Mathematician

Academic advisor
  
David Hilbert

Name
  
Max Mason

Fields
  
Mathematics

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Institutions
  
University of Chicago Rockefeller Foundation

Known for
  
differential equations calculus of variations electromagnetism

Died
  
March 23, 1961, Claremont, California, United States

Education
  
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Books
  
The New Haven Mathematical Colloquium: Lectures Delivered Before Members of the American Mathematical Society in Connection with the Summer Meeting, Held September 5th to 8th, 1906, Under the Auspices of Yale University

UnCommon Core | Infinity and Beyond, Bob Fefferman


Charles Max Mason (October 26, 1877 – March 23, 1961), better known as Max Mason, was an American mathematician. Mason was president of the University of Chicago (1925–1929) and president of the Rockefeller Foundation (1929–1936).

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Mason's mathematical research interests included differential equations, the calculus of variations, and electromagnetic theory.

Education

  • B.Litt., 1898, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Gottingen, 1903.
  • Dissertation: "Randwertaufgaben bei gewohnlichen Differentialgleichungen" (Boundary value functions with ordinary differential equations)
  • Advisor: Hilbert

    • Career

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 1903–1904, Instructor of Mathematics.
  • Yale University, 1904–1908, Assistant Professor of Mathematics.
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1908–1909, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Associate Professor of Mathematics.
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1909–1925, Professor of Physics.
  • National Research Council, 1917–1919, Submarine Committee. (Invented a submarine detection device, which was the basis for sonar detectors used in World War II.)
  • University of Chicago, 1925–1928, President.
  • Rockefeller Foundation, 1928–1929, Director, Natural Sciences Division.
  • Rockefeller Foundation, 1929–1936, President.
  • Palomar Observatory (California), 1936–1949, Chairman of the team directing the construction of the observatory.

    • On May 2, 1945 he appeared on Edgar Bergen's radio show to chat about the new observatory and trade jokes with Charlie McCarthy.

    References

    Max Mason Wikipedia
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