Arthur Herbert Copeland

Arthur Herbert Copeland (June 22, 1898 Rochester, New York – July 6, 1970) was an American mathematician. He graduated from Harvard University in 1926^[1] and taught at Rice University and the University of Michigan. His main interest was in the foundations of probability.^[2][3]

He worked with Paul Erdős on the Copeland-Erdős constant. His son, Arthur Herbert Copeland, Jr., is also a mathematician.

Selected works

• "Note on the Fourier development of continuous functions". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (6): 689–692. 1927. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1927-04457-3. MR 1561449.
• "Types of motion of the gyroscope". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 30 (4): 737–764. 1928. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1928-1501456-4. MR 1501456.
• "A mixture theorem for nonconservative mechanical systems". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (12): 895–900. 1936. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1936-06461-x. MR 1563461.
• "Consistency of the conditions determining Kollektivs". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (3): 333–357. 1937. doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1937-1501925-2. MR 1501925.
• "A new definition of a Stieltjes integral". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 43 (8): 581–588. 1937. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1937-06610-9. MR 1563591.
• "The Teaching of the Calculus of Probability". Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures, Number 4. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. 1944. pp. 31–43.
• with Paul Erdős: "Note on normal numbers". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (10): 857–860. 1946. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1946-08657-7. MR 0017743.
• with Frank Harary: "The extension of an arbitrary Boolean algebra to an implicative Boolean algebra". Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 4: 751–758. 1953. doi:10.1090/s0002-9939-1953-0057229-5. MR 0057229.
• Geometry, algebra, and trigonometry by vector methods. NY: Macmillan. 1962, 298 pp.

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