Angus Ellis Taylor (October 13, 1911 – April 6, 1999) was a
mathematician
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and professor at various universities in the
University of California system. He earned his undergraduate degree at
Harvard
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher lear ...
''summa cum laude'' in 1933 and his PhD at
Caltech
The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private university, private research university in Pasadena, California, United States. The university is responsible for many modern scientific advancements and is among a small g ...
in 1936 under Aristotle Michal with a dissertation on
analytic function
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s. By 1944 he had risen to full professor at
UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...
, whose mathematics department he later chaired (1958–1964). Taylor was also an astute administrator and eventually rose through the UC system to become provost and then chancellor of
UC Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California system. Located in Monterey Bay ...
. He authored a number of mathematical texts, one of which, ''Advanced Calculus (1955 originally published by Ginn/Blaisdell)'', became a standard for a generation of mathematics students.
Books
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* Sherwood, G. E. F.; Taylor, Angus E. (1942; 3rd ed., 1954). ''Calculus''. Prentice-Hall
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References
External links
Personal websiteat University of California, Berkeley
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Obituaryin the
San Francisco Chronicle
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Photographs of Angus Taylor from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections
1911 births
1999 deaths
Harvard University alumni
20th-century American mathematicians
Chancellors of the University of California, Santa Cruz
20th-century American academics
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