James Harkness
Canadian mathematician
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- PhD Mathematics University of British Columbia
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Harkness was a Canadian mathematician, born in Derby, England, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge with a B.A. in 1885 and an M.A. in 1889. Coming early to the United States, he was connected with Bryn Mawr College from 1888 to 1903, for the last seven years as professor of mathematics. Harkness complemented Scott with a course on "Abelian Integrals and Functions" that also drew on the latest literature in German — the work of Alfred Clebsch and Paul Gordan, Bernhard Riemann, Hermann Amandus Schwarz and others — and "aimed to prepare the students for the recent Memoirs of Felix Klein in the Mathematische Annalen".In 1903, he was appointed Peter Redpath professor of pure mathematics at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
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