Louis Weisner (born 1899–1988) was an American-Canadian mathematician at the

University of New Brunswick The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with two primary campuses in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. It is the oldest English language, English-language university in Canada, and among the oldest public universiti ...

who introduced Weisner's method. He graduated in 1923 from

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with a Ph.D. in mathematics. His thesis ''Groups whose maximal cyclic subgroups are independent'' was supervised by

Frank Nelson Cole Frank Nelson Cole (September 20, 1861 – May 26, 1926) was an American mathematician. He is most famous for discovering the factors of the Mersenne number 267 − 1. Life and works Cole was born in Ashland, Massachusetts. When he was very yo ...

. As a postdoc, Weisner was an instructor at the

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. At

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he was appointed an instructor in 1927 and was successively promoted to assistant professor and associate professor. When he was an associate professor in 1954, the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York charged him with "neglect of duty" and "conduct unbecoming a member of the staff" because of his alleged involvement, beginning "in or about the year 1938", with the Communist Party. From 1955 to 1988 he was a professor of mathematics at the University of New Brunswick.

Selected publications

Articles

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Books

* (reprint of 1938 1st edition)

References

External links

Louis Weisner memorial prize
* Canadian mathematicians 1899 births 1988 deaths American emigrants to Canada Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni {{Mathematician-stub