Burton Wadsworth Jones

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According to Wikipedia, Burton Wadsworth Jones was an American mathematician, known for his work on quadratic forms. B. W. Jones was born in Redwood Falls, Minnesota. He received his BA in 1923 from Grinell College, his MA in 1924 from Harvard University, and his PhD in mathematics in 1928 from the University of Chicago under L. E. Dickson. Jones was a mathematics professor at Cornell University from 1930 to 1948. At Cornell, he supervised the doctoral dissertations of four mathematicians: Irma Moses Reiner , Irving Reiner , Mary Dolciani , and William J. LeVeque . Jones was a member of the University of Colorado Boulder faculty from 1948 to his retirement in 1971; he was chair of the mathematics department from 1949 to 1963.

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The Arithmetic Theory of Quadratic Forms (1950) (129)
Regular and semi-regular positive ternary quadratic forms (1939) (61)
A VARIATION ON A PROBLEM OF DAVENPORT AND DIOPHANTUS (1976) (37)
A canonical quadratic form for the ring of 2-adic integers (1944) (29)
The regularity of a genus of positive ternary quadratic forms (1931) (20)
On Indefinite Ternary Quadratic Forms (1956) (17)
The Theory of Numbers (1957) (10)
A table of Eisenstein-reduced positive ternary quadratic forms of determinant ≦ 200 : report of the Committee on Tables of Positive Ternary Quadratic Forms (1935) (8)
A new definition of genus for ternary quadratic forms (1931) (5)
Related genera of quadratic forms (1942) (5)
An extension of a theorem of Witt (1942) (5)
Analytic geometry and calculus (1962) (4)
Quasi-genera of quadratic forms (1973) (4)
Elementary Concepts Of Mathematics (1964) (4)
An Extension of Meyer's Theorem on Indefinite Ternary Quadratic Forms (1952) (3)
Representation by Quadratic Forms (1949) (3)
An introduction to modern algebra (1975) (3)
Program for College Preparatory Mathematics . Report of the Commission on Mathematics. College Entrance Examination Board, Princeton, N.J., 1959. 63 pp. + Appendices (bound separately). 231 pp. $1 each. (1959) (2)
A Proof of a Theorem of Meyer on Indefinite Ternary Quadratic Forms (1955) (2)
Problems for Solution: 3673-3678 (1934) (1)
The Number of Representations by Certain Positive Ternary Quadratic Forms (1929) (1)
A theorem on quadratic forms over the ring of 2-adic integers (1949) (1)
Correction to “An Extension of Meyer's Theorem on Indefinite Ternary Quadratic Forms” (1953) (1)
The Composition of Quadratic Binary Forms (1949) (1)
Properly primitive ternary indefinite quadratic genera of more than one class (1953) (1)
Studies in Mathematics, Volume XIV. Introduction to Number Systems. (1966) (0)
Certain quinary forms related to the sum of five squares (1930) (0)
General Principles of International Collaboration in Mathematical Education. (1970) (0)
Problems for Solution: E118-E124 (1934) (0)
Review: Raphael M. Robinson, Stencils for Solving $x^2 \equiv a\,\left( {\bmod \,m} \right)$ (1941) (0)
Mathematics is Easy. (1960) (0)
Selected Topics in Higher Mathematics for Teachers. (1944) (0)
The Transformations Effecting the Reduction of Positive Quaternary Quadratic Forms (1934) (0)
The Reduction of Positive Quaternary Quadratic Forms (1939) (0)
Summer Conference in College Mathematics (1954) (0)
Book Review: Stencils for Solving $x^2 \equiv a\,\left( {\bmod \,m} \right)$ (1941) (0)
Automorphs of quadratic forms (1954) (0)
A theorem on integral symmetric matrices (1949) (0)
The Arithmetic Theory of Quadratic Forms. (1951) (0)
Academic Year Institutes (1959) (0)
For Mathematicians et al. : Excursions in Number Theory . C. Stanley Ogilvy and John T. Anderson. Oxford University Press, New York, 1966. 176 pp., illus. $5. (1967) (0)
Mathematics Programs in Central America (1965) (0)
Introduction to number systems (1966) (0)
Mathematical Education Notes (1960) (0)
On Selling's Method of Reduction for Positive Ternary Quadratic Forms (1932) (0)

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