J. V. Uspensky

James Victor Uspensky (April 29, 1883 – January 27, 1947) was a Russian and American mathematician notable for writing Theory of Equations.[2][3]

J. V. Uspensky
Delaunay (left) with Uspensky
Born	Yakov Viktorovich Uspensky (Russian: Яков Викторович Успенский) April 29, 1883 Urga, Outer Mongolia
Died	January 27, 1947 (aged 63) San Francisco, United States
Alma mater	University of St. Petersburg
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, Number theory, Probability theory
Institutions	Stanford University, University of Minnesota
Doctoral advisor	Andrey Markov [1]
Notable students	Carl D. Olds Ivan Vinogradov Rodion Kuzmin

Biography

Uspensky graduated from the University of St. Petersburg in 1906 and received his doctorate from the University of St. Petersburg in 1910. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1921.[4]

Uspensky joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1929-30 and 1930-31 as acting professor of mathematics. He was professor of mathematics at Stanford from 1931 until his death.[4] Uspensky was the one who kept alive Vincent's theorem of 1834 and 1836, carrying the torch (so to speak) from Serret.[5]

Books

• Uspensky, J. V. (1948). Theory of equations.
• Uspensky, J. V.; Heaslet, M. A. (1939). Elementary Number Theory.
• Uspensky, J. V. (1937). Introduction to mathematical probability.

Notes

1. James Uspensky on the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. J. V. Uspensky (1948). Theory of Equations. Pp. vii. 353. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co.
3. Kenneth May (1949). Book Review: Theory of Equations, by J. V. Uspensky. Popular Astronomy. 57. p. 46. .
4. Royden (1988).
5. Uspensky's biography (in Russian).

References

• J. V. Uspensky (1931). "On Ch. Jordan's Series for Probability". Annals of Mathematics. Second Series. 32 (2): 306–312. doi:10.2307/1968193.
• J. V. Uspensky (1926–1927). "On the Development of Arbitrary Functions in Series of Hermite's and Laguerre's Polynomials". Annals of Mathematics. Second Series. 28 (1/4): 593–619. doi:10.2307/1968401.
• 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. Link to PDF: "A History of Mathematics at Stanford" by Halsey Royden.

External links

• J. V. Uspensky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project