The University of Chicago Science Series. Food Poisoning (German Edition)
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The subgroups of the generalized finite modular group
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The subgroups of the generalized finite modular group by Eliakim Hastings Moore.
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Mathematical Papers Read at the International Mathematical Congress: Held in Connection with the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
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The University of Chicago Science Series: Problems of Fertilization
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Mathematical papers read at the International Mathematical Congress held in connection with the Worl
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Eliakim Hastings Moore was an American mathematician.
Background
Eliakim Hastings Moore was born on January 26, 1862, in Marietta, Ohio. He was the son of the Rev. David Hastings and Julia Sophia (Carpenter) Moore. He was a descendant of John Moore, who settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts, before 1642. Eliakim's grandfather, whose name he bore, a native of Boylston, Massachusetts, had moved to Ohio with his parents and had become prominent in financial and political circles and a member of Congress; his father was a Methodist minister who had been a colonel in the Civil War, became president of Wesleyan Female College, Cincinnati, first chancellor of the University of Denver, and a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Eliakim was the eldest of nine children, six sons, and three daughters.
Education
Moore's interest in mathematics seems to have been aroused by Ormond Stone, director of the Cincinnati Observatory and later of the Leander McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia, who secured him in an emergency one summer as an assistant. The influence Stone had exerted was continued at Yale University, where Moore enrolled in 1879, by Hubert Anson Newton, professor of mathematics and a distinguished astronomer. Moore's career as a student amply justified the interest of these men. He received the degree of A. B. in 1883 and that of Ph. D. in 1885. As an undergraduate, he took prizes in Latin, English, and astronomy, and three in mathematics; he was valedictorian of his class. Fellow students nicknamed him "Plus Moore" in deference to his unusual mathematical attainments. Newton encouraged him to go abroad for a year of study in Germany, and aided him financially. At Berlin and Gottingen, he listened to mathematicians of enduring reputation, gained confidence in his own ability to take a dignified place among European as well as American scholars, and carried away with his intimate knowledge of the work of such men as Klein, Kronecker, and Weierstrass.
Career
Returning to the United States in 1886, Moore was appointed to an instructorship in the academy at Northwestern University. After one year there, he spent two years as a tutor at Yale. In 1889, he went back to Northwestern University as an assistant professor and was advanced in 1891 to an associate professorship. By that time he was well launched on his career as a teacher and investigator and had written five papers, a production considered unusual at that time for a mathematician so young. President William R. Harper of the then new University of Chicago recognized his talents and in 1892 appointed him acting head of the department of mathematics.
Moore was so successful in his new duties that in 1896, he was made a head of the department, a position which he held until his death. Though his bibliography contains some seventy-four items he was not prolific as a writer in proportion to his research activity, especially in the latter part of his career when he was concerned with the development of his so-called General Analysis. His work is characterized by skill in the invention and effective handling of powerful mathematical notations and in the development of general theories which contain numerous others as special cases.
In his earlier years, he was interested successively in algebraic geometry and the theory of groups, and later in function theoretic questions and integral equations. This last interest led to the formulation of his General Analysis, a theory which included as special cases the classical integral equation theory and numerous other chapters of mathematics. He was far ahead of his time when, in 1906, he read a paper on the subject, which appeared in The New Haven Mathematical Colloqium (1910) and was published that same year under the title Introduction to a Form of General Analysis. Since then, and especially in the last decade, many writers have rediscovered or developed his ideas. Since his death, two volumes containing his researches in General Analysis have appeared, sponsored by the American Philosophical Society and with R. W. Barnard as coauthor. Two further volumes are in preparation. In addition to his research and teaching, Moore was involved in national scientific activities.
Achievements
Moore was influential in the transformation of the New York Mathematical Society into the American Mathematical Society in 1894 and in the organization of the first so-called section of the Society, the Chicago Section, in 1897. He was vice-president and president of the Society from 1898 to 1902. In 1921, he was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1899 he was one of the founders of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, a leading mathematical journal, and he was one of its three editors-in-chief, from 1899 to 1907.
From 1914 to 1929, he was chairman of the board of editors of the University of Chicago Science Series, and from 1915 to 1920, he was a member of the editorial board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1916, he was an active supporter of the founders of the Mathematical Association of America, an association whose activities supplement in the field of college teaching those of the Mathematical Society in research. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences. The American Mathematical Society established a prize in his honor in 2002.
Quotations:
"We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a general theory which underlies the particular theories and unifies them with respect to those central features. "
Membership
a member of the editorial board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Philosophical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences
Personality
Moore's success at Chicago was due to his wise selections of associates as well as to his own unusual abilities. Among his first appointments were Oskar Bolza and Heinrich Maschke, aggressive German scholars who had emigrated to the United States. With these two men and Moore's enthusiastic leadership the department soon took its place among the leading mathematical centers in America for research and teaching.
Bolza and Maschke were skillful lecturers of the European type; Moore was more radical in his methods. He took his research into his classroom and succeeded or failed in it in collaboration with his students. He was instinctively but quite unintentionally impatient with those who were slow in understanding him or in responding to his suggestions. Weaker students were overawed and soon dropped out of his classes, but stronger ones were attracted to him and were proud of their ability to understand and to maintain the pace.
As a result, among the leading mathematicians in the country, there were an unusual number who owed their original inspiration to Moore. His interest in mathematical research was throughout his life the dominant one.
Quotes from others about the person
"Moore was presenting a paper on a highly technical topic to a large gathering of faculty and graduate students from all parts of the country. When half way through he discovered what seemed to be an error (though probably no one else in the room observed it). He stopped and re-examined the doubtful step for several minutes and then, convinced of the error, he abruptly dismissed the meeting - to the astonishment of most of the audience. It was an evidence of intellectual courage as well as honesty and doubtless won for him the supreme admiration of every person in the group - an admiration which was in no wise diminished, but rather increased, when at a later meeting he announced that after all he had been able to prove the step to be correct. "
Connections
On June 21, 1892, Moore married Martha Morris Young, a sister of John Wesley Young, and daughter of William H. Young of Athens, Ohio; two children were born to them Daniel and Eliakim.
