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Edward Kasner

Edward Kasner (April 2, 1878 – January 7, 1955) was an American mathematician who was appointed Tutor on Mathematics in the Columbia University Mathematics Department. Kasner was the first Jewish person appointed to a faculty position in the sciences at Columbia University.[1] Subsequently, he became an adjunct professor in 1906, and a full professor in 1910, at the university. Differential geometry was his main field of study. In addition to introducing the term "googol", he is known also for the Kasner metric and the Kasner polygon.[2]

Edward Kasner

(1878-04-02)April 2, 1878

New York City, United States

January 7, 1955(1955-01-07) (aged 76)

New York City, United States

American

City College of New York (BA)
Columbia University (MA, PhD)

Kasner metric
Kasner polygon
"googol"

Mathematics

Columbia University

Felix Klein
David Hilbert

Rufus Isaacs
Joseph Ritt
Jesse Douglas
Edna Kramer

Education[edit]

Kasner's 1899 PhD dissertation at Columbia University was titled The Invariant Theory of the Inversion Group: Geometry upon a Quadric Surface; it was published by the American Mathematical Society in 1900 in their Transactions.

Personal life[edit]

Kasner was Jewish and was the son of Austrian immigrants.[9]

Kasner, E. (1900). . Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 1 (4): 430–498. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1900-1500550-1. hdl:2027/miun.abv0510.0001.001. JSTOR 1986367.

"The Invariant Theory of the Inversion Group: Geometry Upon a Quadric Surface"

Kasner, Edward (1980) [1934]. "Differential-geometric aspects of dynamics". In C. Carpelan; A. Parpola; P. Koskikallio (eds.). The Logarithmic potential and other monographs. New York: Chelsea. pp. 235–263.  0-8284-0305-8.

ISBN

Kasner, Edward; Newman, James R. (April 2001) [London: Penguin, 1940; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967]. . Dover Pubns. ISBN 0-486-41703-4.

Mathematics and the Imagination

Edward Kasner and James R. Newman, , Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, 1989. ISBN 1-55615-104-7

Mathematics and the Imagination

Kasner, Edward (July 1914). . Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 20 (10): 524–31. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1914-02545-5.

"The Ratio of the Arc to the Chord of an Analytic Curve Need Not Be Unity"

Kasner, Edward (1921). "Geometrical theorems on Einstein's cosmological equations". Amer. J. Math. 43 (4). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 217–221. :1921AmJM...43..217K. doi:10.2307/2370192. JSTOR 2370192.

Bibcode

History from the Google website

at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Edward Kasner