Mathematician:John Charles Fields

Mathematician

Canadian mathematician, best known as the founder of the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.

Nationality

Canadian

History

• Born: May 14, 1863 in Hamilton, Ontario
• Died: August 9, 1932 in Toronto, Ontario

Creations

• Fields Medal

Definitions of concepts named for John Charles Fields can be found here.

Publications

• 1886: Symbolic Finite Solutions and Solutions by Definite Integrals of the Equation $d^n y / d x^n = x^m y$

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "John Charles Fields": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive