Education
Curtis received a bachelor"s degree from Bowdoin College in 1948, and his Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in 1951, under the supervision of Nathan Jacobson.
historian mathematician university professor
Curtis received a bachelor"s degree from Bowdoin College in 1948, and his Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University in 1951, under the supervision of Nathan Jacobson.
He is a retired professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon. 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 1962), was the standard text on representation theory for many years.
He taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1954 to 1963.
Subsequently, he moved to the University of Oregon, where he is an emeritus professor At the time of their 50th anniversary in 2000, they had three grandchildren.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
American Mathematical Society.