Biography:Charles W. Curtis

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Charles W. Curtis

Charles Whittlesey Curtis (born October 13, 1926) is a mathematician and historian of mathematics, known for his work in finite group theory and representation theory. He is a retired professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon.

Research

Curtis introduced Curtis duality, a duality operation on the characters of a reductive group over a finite field. His book with Irving Reiner (Curtis Reiner), was the standard text on representation theory for many years.

Biography

Curtis received a bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College in 1948,[1] and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1951, under the supervision of Nathan Jacobson.[2] He taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1954 to 1963.[3] Subsequently, he moved to the University of Oregon, where he is an emeritus professor.[4]

While at Yale, on June 17, 1950 in Cheshire, Connecticut, Curtis married his wife Elizabeth, a kindergarten teacher and childcare provider. At the time of their 50th anniversary in 2000, they had three grandchildren.[5]

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]

Publications

References

  1. University of Oregon Catalog 2011–2012 , retrieved 2011-07-11.
  2. Charles W. Curtis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. UW Math Department Faculty 1849-2010 , retrieved 2011-07-11.
  4. Emeritus Faculty Directory , University of Oregon Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2011-07-11.
  5. "Curtis", Eugene Register-Guardian, July 24, 2000, https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=O1dWAAAAIBAJ&pg=3766,6703564 .
  6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
  7. Review of Pioneers of Representation Theory by Peter G. Neumann, MR1715145.
  8. Review of Pioneers of Representation Theory by J. E. Humphreys, Bull. AMS, 2000, doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-00-00867-3.
  9. Review of Pioneers of Representation Theory by Leo Corry, Isis, 2001.
  10. Review of Pioneers of Representation Theory by Thomas Hawkins, Historia Mathematica, 2003, doi:10.1016/S0315-0860(02)00012-5.
  11. Carlson, Jon F. (1983). "Review: Methods of representation theory, Vol. I, by C. W. Curtis and I. Reiner". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 8 (1): 112–116. doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1983-15099-1. https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1983-08-01/S0273-0979-1983-15099-1/. 
  12. Carlson, Jon F. (1987). "Review: Methods of representation theory, Vol. II, by C. W. Curtis and I. Reiner". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 1988 (2): 484–488. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1988-15709-6. https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1988-19-02/S0273-0979-1988-15709-6/. 

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