Angus Ellis Taylor

Angus Ellis Taylor
Born	October 13, 1911 (1911-10-13) Craig, Colorado, U.S
Died	April 6, 1999(1999-04-06) (aged 87) Berkeley, California, U.S.
Education	Caltech
Scientific career
Fields	Spectral theory
Workplaces	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 an American mathematician and professor at various universities in the University of California system. 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.

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.
• 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. 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

External links

• Past People webpage at Department of Mathematics, 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

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