Mathematician:Arthur Herbert Copeland
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Mathematician
American mathematician whose main interest was in the foundations of probability.
Worked with Paul Erdős on the Copeland-Erdős constant.
Father of Arthur Herbert Copeland, Jr.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: June 22, 1898 Rochester, New York
- Died: July 6, 1970
Theorems and Definitions
Definitions of concepts named for Arthur Herbert Copeland can be found here.
Publications
- 1927: Note on the Fourier development of continuous functions (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 33, no. 6: pp. 689 – 692)
- 1928: Types of motion of the gyroscope (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 30, no. 4: pp. 737 – 764)
- 1936: A mixture theorem for nonconservative mechanical systems (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 42, no. 12: pp. 895 – 900)
- 1937: Consistency of the conditions determining Kollektivs (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 42, no. 3: pp. 333 – 357)
- 1937: A new definition of a Stieltjes integral (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 43, no. 8: pp. 581 – 588)
- 1944: The Teaching of the Calculus of Probability
- 1946: Note on Normal Numbers (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 52, no. 10: pp. 857 – 860) (with Paul Erdős)
- 1953: The extension of an arbitrary Boolean algebra to an implicative Boolean algebra (Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 4: pp. 751 – 758) (with Frank Harary) www.jstor.org/stable/2032408
- 1962: Geometry, Algebra, and Trigonometry by Vector Methods