James Harkness (1864–1923) was a

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, born in

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, and educated at

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with a B.A. in 1885 and an M.A. in 1889. Coming early to the

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, he was connected with

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United ...

from 1888 to 1903, for the last seven years as

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of mathematics. :Harkness complemented Scott with a course on "Abelian Integrals and Functions" that also drew on the latest literature in German — the work of

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and

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, Bernhard Riemann,

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and others — and "aimed to prepare the students for the recent Memoirs of

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in the ''Mathematische Annalen''". In 1903, he was appointed Peter Redpath professor of pure mathematics at

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, Quebec. Harkness was for a time a vice president of the

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and associate editor of its '' Transactions'', was elected a member of the London Mathematical Society and in 1908 became a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He published, with Professor Frank Morley, two treatises on the ''Theory of Functions'' and collaborated on the article "Elliptic Functions", in the ''German Encyclopædia of Mathematics'' (1914–15).

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* Frank Morley and James Harknes
A treatise on the theory of functions
(New York: Macmillan, 1893) * Frank Morley and James Harknes
Introduction To The Theory of Analytic Functions
(G.E.Stechert And Company, 1898) {{DEFAULTSORT:Harkness, James Canadian mathematicians Canadian science writers Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Bryn Mawr College faculty McGill University faculty People from Derby 1864 births 1923 deaths