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James Victor Uspensky (; April 29, 1883 – January 27, 1947) was a Russian and American
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notable for writing ''Theory of Equations''.J. V. Uspensky (1948). Theory of Equations. Pp. vii. 353. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co.


Biography

Uspensky graduated from the
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in 1906 and received his doctorate from the
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in 1910. He was a member of the
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from 1921.Royden (1988). Uspensky joined the faculty of
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in 1929-30 and 1930-31 as acting professor of mathematics. He was professor of mathematics at Stanford from 1931 until his death. Uspensky was the one who kept alive
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of 1834 and 1836, carrying the torch (so to speak) from Serret.Uspensky's biography
(in Russian).


Books

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Notes


References

* * * Halsey Royden (1988). The History of the Mathematics Department at Stanford, in ''A Century of Mathematics in America'' edited by Peter L. Duren, Richard Askey, and Uta C. Merzbach. American Mathematical Society, History of Mathematics Volume 2, Providence, Rhode Island
"A History of Mathematics at Stanford" by Halsey Royden.


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* 1883 births 1947 deaths 20th-century Russian mathematicians Stanford University Department of Mathematics faculty Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925) Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Soviet mathematicians American mathematicians {{Russia-scientist-stub