Ruel Vance Churchill
American mathematician
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| Intro | American mathematician | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Mathematician | |
| Work field | Mathematics | |
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| Birth | 12 December 1899 | |
| Death | 31 October 1987 (aged 87 years) |
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Biography
Ruel Vance Churchill (12 December 1899, Akron, Indiana – 31 October 1987, Ann Arbor, Michigan) was an American mathematician known for writing three widely used textbooks on applied mathematics.
In 1922 Churchill received his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago. In 1929 he received his PhD from the University of Michigan under George Rainich with thesis On the Geometry of the Riemann Tensor. He spent his entire career as a member of the U. of Michigan mathematics faculty and retired in 1965 as professor emeritus. His doctoral students include Earl D. Rainville.
Books
- Complex Variables & Applications (with James Ward Brown, 1st edition 1948)
- Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems
- Modern Operational Mathematics in Engineering
Selected articles
- with R. C. F. Bartels:
- with C. L. Dolph: