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Whitman, Philip Martin was born on December 23, 1916 in Pittsburgh. Son of Edwin A. and Elsie (VanDuyne) Whitman.
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Philip Martin Whitman, American mathematician, educator. Consultant Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, Office Secretary Defense, Operations Evaluation Group, Office Chief Naval Operations, 1950—1961; Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science; member: National Council Teachers of Mathematics, Operations Research Society America, Mathematics Association America, American Mathematics Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Haverford College, 1937. AM, Harvard University, 1938. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1941.
Career
Instructor mathematics University Pennsylvania, 1941—1944. Scientist Los Alamos Laboratory, 1944—1946. Assistant professor mathematics Tufts University, 1946—1948.
Mathematician Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, 1948—1961. Chairman Rhode Island College, Providence, 1961—1967, professor department mathematics, 1961—1986, professor emeritus, since 1987. Retired, 1987.
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Consultant Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, Office Secretary Defense, Operations Evaluation Group, Office Chief Naval Operations, 1950—1961. Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member: National Council Teachers of Mathematics, Operations Research Society America, Mathematics Association America, American Mathematics Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
