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'''William Charles Waterhouse''' (d. June 26, 2016) was an [[American mathematician]], a [[professor emeritus]] of Mathematics at [[Pennsylvania State University]].<ref name="dir">[http://www.math.psu.edu/directory/faculty.php PSU Mathematics Department - Faculty], retrieved 2010-02-06.</ref> His research interests included [[abstract algebra]], [[number theory]], [[group scheme]]s, and the [[history of mathematics]].<ref name="dir"/> He edited the 1966 English translation of [[Carl Friedrich Gauss|Gauss]]'s ''[[Disquisitiones Arithmeticae]]''<ref>Reprinted in 1986 by Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-96254-2.</ref> and was the author of the textbook ''Introduction to Affine Group Schemes''.<ref>Graduate Texts in Mathematics 66, Springer-Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978-0-387-90421-4.</ref>
'''William Charles Waterhouse''' (December 31, 1941 – June 26, 2016) was an [[American mathematician]], a [[professor emeritus]] of Mathematics at [[Pennsylvania State University]].<ref name="dir">[http://www.math.psu.edu/directory/faculty.php PSU Mathematics Department - Faculty], retrieved 2010-02-06.</ref> His research interests included [[abstract algebra]], [[number theory]], [[group scheme]]s, and the [[history of mathematics]].<ref name="dir"/> He edited the 1966 English translation of [[Carl Friedrich Gauss|Gauss]]'s ''[[Disquisitiones Arithmeticae]]''<ref>Reprinted in 1986 by Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-96254-2.</ref> and was the author of the textbook ''Introduction to Affine Group Schemes''.<ref>Graduate Texts in Mathematics 66, Springer-Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978-0-387-90421-4.</ref>


In both 1961 and 1962, Waterhouse (at that time an undergraduate at [[Harvard University]]) earned a Putnam Fellowship as one of the top five competitors on the [[William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition]];<ref>[http://www.maa.org/awards/putnam.html The Mathematical Association of America's William Lowell Putnam Competition], retrieved 2010-02-06.</ref> with his 1962 performance, he led his school to a third-place team award.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1963/3/16/three-math-students-win-third-in/|title=Three Math Students Win Third in Contest|journal=[[The Harvard Crimson]]|date=March 16, 1963}}.</ref> He received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Harvard, for work on [[abelian variety|abelian varieties]] under the supervision of [[John Tate]],<ref>{{mathgenealogy|name=William Charles Waterhouse|id=22871}}.</ref><ref name="lrf84"/> and took a faculty position at [[Cornell University]].<ref name="lrf84"/> In 1975 he moved to Penn State.<ref name="lrf84"/>
In both 1961 and 1962, Waterhouse (at that time an undergraduate at [[Harvard University]]) earned a Putnam Fellowship as one of the top five competitors on the [[William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition]];<ref>[http://www.maa.org/awards/putnam.html The Mathematical Association of America's William Lowell Putnam Competition], retrieved 2010-02-06.</ref> with his 1962 performance, he led his school to a third-place team award.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1963/3/16/three-math-students-win-third-in/|title=Three Math Students Win Third in Contest|journal=[[The Harvard Crimson]]|date=March 16, 1963}}.</ref> He received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Harvard, for work on [[abelian variety|abelian varieties]] under the supervision of [[John Tate]],<ref>{{mathgenealogy|name=William Charles Waterhouse|id=22871}}.</ref><ref name="lrf84"/> and took a faculty position at [[Cornell University]].<ref name="lrf84"/> In 1975 he moved to Penn State.<ref name="lrf84"/>
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William Charles Waterhouse (December 31, 1941 – June 26, 2016) was an American mathematician, a professor emeritus of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.[1] His research interests included abstract algebra, number theory, group schemes, and the history of mathematics.[1] He edited the 1966 English translation of Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae[2] and was the author of the textbook Introduction to Affine Group Schemes.[3]

In both 1961 and 1962, Waterhouse (at that time an undergraduate at Harvard University) earned a Putnam Fellowship as one of the top five competitors on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition;[4] with his 1962 performance, he led his school to a third-place team award.[5] He received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Harvard, for work on abelian varieties under the supervision of John Tate,[6][7] and took a faculty position at Cornell University.[7] In 1975 he moved to Penn State.[7]

Waterhouse has won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America twice, in 1984 for his paper "Do Symmetric Problems Have Symmetric Solutions?"[7] and in 1995 for his paper "A Counterexample for Germain".[8]

He died on June 26, 2016, in State College, Pennsylvania.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b PSU Mathematics Department - Faculty, retrieved 2010-02-06.
  2. ^ Reprinted in 1986 by Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-0-387-96254-2.
  3. ^ Graduate Texts in Mathematics 66, Springer-Verlag, 1979, ISBN 978-0-387-90421-4.
  4. ^ The Mathematical Association of America's William Lowell Putnam Competition, retrieved 2010-02-06.
  5. ^ "Three Math Students Win Third in Contest", The Harvard Crimson, March 16, 1963.
  6. ^ William Charles Waterhouse at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  7. ^ a b c d MAA Writing Awards: Do Symmetric Problems Have Symmetric Solutions?, 1984.
  8. ^ MAA Writing Awards: A Counterexample for Germain.
  9. ^ "William C. Waterhouse Obituary", Centre Daily Times, June 29, 2016.