Name William Waterhouse Role Mathematician | Education Harvard University | |
Books Introduction to Affine Group Schemes | ||
William Charles Waterhouse (December 31, 1941 – June 26, 2016) was an American mathematician. He was a professor emeritus of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests included abstract algebra, number theory, group schemes, and the history of mathematics. He edited the 1966 English translation of Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae and was the author of the textbook Introduction to Affine Group Schemes.
In both 1961 and 1962, Waterhouse (at that time an undergraduate at Harvard University) earned a Putnam Fellowship as one of the top five competitors on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition; with his 1962 performance, he led his school to a third-place team award. He received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Harvard, for work on abelian varieties under the supervision of John Tate, and took a faculty position at Cornell University. In 1975 he moved to Penn State.
Waterhouse has won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America twice, in 1984 for his paper "Do Symmetric Problems Have Symmetric Solutions?" and in 1995 for his paper "A Counterexample for Germain".
He died on June 26, 2016, in State College, Pennsylvania.