Charles W. Curtis
Charles W. Curtis is a mathematician and historian of mathematics, known for his work in finite group theory and representation theory. He is a retired professor of mathematics at the University of Oregon.
Research
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.
Biography
Curtis received a bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College in 1948,[1] and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1951, under the supervision of Nathan Jacobson.[2] He taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1954 to 1963.[3] Subsequently, he moved to the University of Oregon, where he is an emeritus professor.[4]
While at Yale, on June 17, 1950 in Cheshire, Connecticut, Curtis married his wife Elizabeth, a kindergarten teacher and childcare provider. At the time of their 50th anniversary in 2000, they had three grandchildren.[5]
Publications
- Curtis, Charles W. (1999), Pioneers of Representation Theory: Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and Brauer, History of Mathematics, Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-2677-5.[6][7][8][9]
- Curtis, Charles W.; Reiner, Irving (1962), Representation theory of finite groups and associative algebras, Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. XI, Interscience Publishers, a division of John Wiley & Sons, New York-London, ISBN 978-0-8218-4066-5, MR 0144979
- Curtis, Charles W.; Reiner, Irving (1981), Methods of representation theory. Vol. I, New York: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 978-0-471-18994-7, MR 0632548
References
- ^ University of Oregon Catalog 2011–2012, retrieved 2011-07-11.
- ^ Charles W. Curtis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ UW Math Department Faculty 1849-2010, retrieved 2011-07-11.
- ^ Emeritus Faculty Directory, University of Oregon Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2011-07-11.
- ^ "Curtis", Eugene Register-Guardian, July 24, 2000.
- ^ Review of Pioneers of Representation Theory by Peter G. Neumann, MR1715145.
- ^ Review of Pioneers of Representation Theory] by J. E. Humphreys, Bull. AMS, 2000, doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-00-00867-3.
- ^ Review of Pioneers of Representation Theory by Leo Corry, Isis, 2001.
- ^ Review of Pioneers of Representation Theory by Thomas Hawkins, Historia Mathematica, 2003, doi:10.1016/S0315-0860(02)00012-5.
External links
- Pictures of C. W. Curtis from Oberwolfach