Angus Ellis Taylor Scientist

Angus Ellis Taylor (October 13, 1911 – April 6, 1999) was a mathematician and professor at various universities in the University of California system. He earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard summa cum laude in 1933 and his PhD at Caltech in 1936 under Aristotle Michal with a dissertation on analytic functions. By 1944 he had risen to full professor at UCLA, whose mathematics department he would later chair (1958–1964). Taylor was also an astute administrator and would eventually rise through the UC system to become provost and then chancellor of UC Santa Cruz. He authored a number of mathematical texts, one of which, Advanced Calculus (1955, Ginn and Co.), would be a standard for a generation of mathematics students.

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Angus Ellis Taylor
Birth dateOctober 13, 1911
Birth place
Craig Colorado
Citizenship
United States
Date of deathApril 06, 1999
Place of death
Berkeley California
Residence
United States
Education
California Institute of Technology

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Field of study
Spectral theory
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  1. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/04/15/MN71789.DTL