Thomas W. Hawkins Jr.
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Born | Thomas William Hawkins Jr. (1938-01-10) January 10, 1938 (age 86) Flushing, New York, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Awards | Chauvenet Prize (1997) [1] Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize (2001) [2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | History of mathematics |
Institutions | Boston University |
Doctoral advisor | Robert Creighton Buck[3] |
Thomas W. Hawkins Jr. (born 10 January 1938 in Flushing, New York) is an American historian of mathematics.
Hawkins defended his Ph.D. thesis on "The Origins and Early Development of Lebesgue's Theory of Integration" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 under Robert Creighton Buck. Since 1972 he has been based at Boston University. Hawkins was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1974 at Vancouver[4] and in 1986 at Berkeley.[5]
In 1997 Hawkins was awarded the Chauvenet Prize for his article "The birth of Lie's theory of groups",[6] published in the Mathematical Intelligencer in 1994.[1] In fall 2012 Hawkins was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[7]
Selected publications
Articles
- The Theory of Matrices in the 19th Century. In: Ralph D. James (ed.): Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vancouver, 1974. CMC, Vancouver 1975, vol. 2, ISBN 0-919558-04-6, pp. 561–570.
- Hypercomplex numbers, Lie groups and the creation of group representation theory. In: Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 8 (1971/72), ISSN 0003-9519, pp. 243–287. doi:10.1007/BF00328434
- The origins of the theory of group characters. In: Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 7 (1970), ISSN 0003-9519, pp. 142–170. JSTOR 41133320
- New light on Frobenius creation of the theory of group characters. In: Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 12 (1974), ISSN 0003-9519, pp. 217–243. doi:10.1007/BF00357245
- Wilhelm Killing and the structure of Lie algebras. In: Archive for History of Exact Sciences, vol. 26 (1982), ISSN 0003-9519, pp. 126–192. doi:10.1007/BF00348350
- Non-euclidean geometry and Weierstrassian mathematics. The background to Killing's work on Lie algebras. In: Historia Mathematica, vol. 7 (1980), ISSN 0315-0860, pp. 289–342. doi:10.1016/0315-0860(80)90027-0
Books
- Emergence of the theory of Lie groups. An Essay in the history of Mathematics 1869-1926 (Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical series). Springer Verlag, New York 2000, ISBN 0-387-98963-3.[8]
- Lebesgue's Theory of Integration. Its Origin and Development. 2nd edition. AMS Chelsea Books, New York 1979, ISBN 0-8284-0282-5; reprint with corrections of original edition published by University of Wisconsin Press 1970;[9] reprint of 2nd edition. AMS Chelsea Books. 2001. ISBN 9780821829639.
- The mathematics of Frobenius in context. A journey through 18th to 20th century mathematics. Springer, New York 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-6332-0.[10]
References
- ^ a b List of Chauvenet Prize recipients, Mathematical Association of America.
- ^ 2001 Whiteman Prize (PDF).
- ^ Tom Hawkins on the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ Hawkins, Thomas. "The theory of matrices in the 19th century" (PDF). In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vancouver, 1974. Vol. 2. pp. 561–570. S2CID 34428017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
- ^ "ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers". International Mathematical Union (IMU). Retrieved 2022-11-15.
- ^ Hawkins, Thomas W. (1994). "The birth of Lie's theory of groups". Mathematical Intelligencer. 16 (2): 6–17. doi:10.1007/BF03024278. S2CID 123313709.
- ^ "Fellows of the American Mathematical Society". American Mathematical Society. 2018-11-26. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
- ^ Rowe, David E. (2003). "Book Review: Emergence of the Theory of Lie Groups" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 50 (6): 668–677.
- ^ Waterhouse, William C. (1972). "Review of Lebesgue's Theory of Integration by Thomas Hawkins; A History of Vector Analysis by Michael J. Crowe; The Development of the Foundations of Mathematical Analysis from Euler to Riemann by I. Grattan-Guinness; Die Genesis des abstrakten Gruppenbegriffes by Hans Wussing". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). 78 (3): 385–391. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1972-12909-4.
- ^ Roberts, David P. (12 October 2014). "Review of The mathematics of Frobenius in context". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
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- 1925 G. A. Bliss
- 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
- 1932 G. H. Hardy
- 1935 Dunham Jackson
- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders Mac Lane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
- 1950 Mark Kac
- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 Richard H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
- 1963 Philip J. Davis
- 1964 Leon Henkin
- 1965 Jack K. Hale and Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
- 1970 Shiing-Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
- 1972 François Trèves
- 1973 Carl D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
- 1982 No award given.
- 1983 No award given.
- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1985 Carl Pomerance
- 1986 George Miel
- 1987 James H. Wilkinson
- 1988 Stephen Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
- 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
- 1994 Barry Mazur
- 1995 Donald G. Saari
- 1996 Joan Birman
- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
- 2009 Harold P. Boas
- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
- 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
- 2013 Robert Ghrist
- 2014 Ravi Vakil
- 2015 Dana Mackenzie
- 2016 Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith
- 2017 Mark Schilling
- 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
- 2019 Tom Leinster
- 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele
- 2021 Travis Kowalski
- 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
- 2023 Kimmo Eriksson & Jonas Eliasson
- 2024 Jeffrey Whitmer
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