Background
Morley was born in the town of Woodbridge in Suffolk, England.
Morley was born in the town of Woodbridge in Suffolk, England.
He led 50 Doctor of Philosophy"s to their degrees, and was said to be:.
"..one of the more striking figures of the relatively small group of men who initiated that development which, within his own lifetime, brought Mathematics in America from a minor position to its present place in the sun."
After being educated at Woodbridge School, Morley went on to King"s College, Cambridge (Bachelor, 1884). In 1887 Morley moved to Pennsylvania. He taught at Haverford College until 1900, when he became chairman of the mathematics department at Johns Hopkins University.
His publications include Elementary Treatise on the Theory of Functions (1893), with James Harkness.
And Introduction to the Theory of Analytic Functions (1898). He was President of the American Mathematical Society from 1919 to 1920 and was the editor of the American Journal of Mathematics from 1900 to 1921.
He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1912 at Cambridge (England), in 1924 at Toronto, and in 1936 at Oslo. The book develops complex numbers as a tool for geometry and function theory.
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He died in Baltimore, Maryland at age 77.