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Harley Flanders

Harley Flanders
Born (1925-09-13)September 13, 1925
Chicago, Illinois
Died July 26, 2013(2013-07-26) (aged 87)
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Nationality American
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater University of Chicago
Doctoral advisor Otto Schilling
André Weil
Doctoral students Achmad Arifin
Theodore Frankel
Charles Watts

Harley Flanders (September 13, 1925 – July 26, 2013) was an American mathematician, known for several textbooks and contributions to his fields: algebra and algebraic number theory, linear algebra, electrical networks, scientific computing.

He received his bachelors (1946), masters (1947) and PhD (1949) at the University of Chicago on the dissertation Unification of class field theory advised by Otto Schilling and André Weil. He held the Bateman Fellowship at Caltech. He joined the faculty at University of California at Berkeley, then became professor at Purdue University (1960), and was with the faculty at Tel Aviv University (1970–77), visiting professor at Georgia Tech (1977–78), visiting scholar at Florida Atlantic University (1978–85), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1985–97, 2000–), University of North Florida (1997–2000) and, distinguished mathematician in residence at Jacksonville University (1997–2000). He was Editor-in-Chief, American Mathematical Monthly, 1969–1973. Flanders also wrote calculus software MicroCalc, ver 1–7 (1975–).

He died July 26, 2013.


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