Mathematician:Edward Vermilye Huntington

Mathematician

American mathematician who worked on the foundations of mathematics.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 26 April 1874, Clinton, New York, USA
• Died: 25 Nov 1952, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Theorems and Definitions

• Huntington's Postulates
• Huntington Algebra
• Huntington's Theorem

Publications

• 1904: Sets of Independent Postulates for the Algebra of Logic (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 5, no. 3: pp. 288 – 309)  www.jstor.org/stable/1986459

• 1917: The Continuum and Other Types of Serial Order

• 1940: Methods of Apportionment in Congress. A survey of methods of apportionment in Congress. Senate document no. 304, 76th Congress, Third session. United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1940

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Edward Vermilye Huntington": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive