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Tom Hawkins
Born
Thomas William Hawkins Jr.

(1938-01-10) January 10, 1938 (age 86)
Flushing, New York, U.S.
NationalityUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
AwardsChauvenet Prize (1997) [1]
Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize (2001) [2]
Scientific career
FieldsHistory of mathematics
InstitutionsBoston University
Doctoral advisorRobert Creighton Buck [3]

Thomas W. Hawkins Jr. (born 10 January 1938 in Flushing, New York) is an American historian of mathematics.

Hawkins defended his Ph.D. thesis on "The Origins and Early Development of Lebesgue's Theory of Integration" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 under Robert Creighton Buck. Since 1972 he has been based at Boston University. Hawkins was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1974 at Vancouver and in 1986 at Berkeley.

In 1997 Hawkins was awarded the Chauvenet Prize for his article "The birth of Lie's theory of groups",[4] published in the Mathematical Intelligencer in 1994.[1] In fall 2012 Hawkins was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

References

  1. ^ a b List of Chauvenet Prize recipients, Mathematical Association of America.
  2. ^ 2001 Whiteman Prize (PDF).
  3. ^ Tom Hawkins on the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  4. ^ Hawkins, Thomas W. (1994). "The birth of Lie's theory of groups". Mathematical Intelligencer. 16 (2). Springer: 6–17. doi:10.1007/BF03024278. Retrieved 13 August 2016.


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