William C. Waterhouse
William C. Waterhouse | |
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| Born | December 31, 1941 Galveston, Texas, U.S. |
| Died | June 26, 2016 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Awards | Lester R. Ford Award (1984, 1995) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University Cornell University |
| Thesis | Abelian Varieties over Finite Fields (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Tate |
William Charles Waterhouse (December 31, 1941 – June 26, 2016) was an American mathematician. He was a professor emeritus of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.[1] His research interests included abstract algebra, number theory, group schemes, and the history of mathematics.[1]
Early life and education
Waterhouse was born in Galveston, Texas, on December 31, 1941.[2]
In both 1961 and 1962, Waterhouse earned a Putnam Fellowship as one of the top five competitors on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition while he was an undergraduate at Harvard University;[3] with his 1962 performance, he led his school to a third-place team award.[4]
He received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Harvard for his thesis Abelian Varieties over Finite Fields under the supervision of John Tate.[5][6]
Career
Waterhouse took a faculty position at Cornell University in 1968.[2][6] In 1975, he moved to Pennsylvania State University.[2][6]
He edited the 1966 English translation of Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae[7] and was the author of the textbook Introduction to Affine Group Schemes.[8]
Awards and honors
Waterhouse won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America twice, in 1984 for his paper "Do Symmetric Problems Have Symmetric Solutions?"[6] and in 1995 for his paper "A Counterexample for Germain".[9]
Personal life
Waterhouse died on June 26, 2016, in State College, Pennsylvania.[2]
References
- ^ a b PSU Mathematics Department - Faculty, retrieved 2010-02-06.
- ^ a b c d "William C. Waterhouse Obituary", Centre Daily Times, June 29, 2016, retrieved April 21, 2022.
- ^ The Mathematical Association of America's William Lowell Putnam Competition, retrieved 2010-02-06.
- ^ "Three Math Students Win Third in Contest", The Harvard Crimson, March 16, 1963.
- ^ William Charles Waterhouse at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ a b c d MAA Writing Awards: Do Symmetric Problems Have Symmetric Solutions?, 1984.
- ^ Reprinted in 1986 by Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-96254-2.
- ^ Graduate Texts in Mathematics 66, Springer-Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978-0-387-90421-4.
- ^ MAA Writing Awards: A Counterexample for Germain.
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