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| Born | (1860-09-09)September 9, 1860 Woodbridge, Suffolk, England |
| Died | October 17, 1937(1937-10-17) (aged 77) Baltimore, Maryland |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Morley's trisector theorem |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Haverford College Johns Hopkins University |
| Doctoral students | Clara Latimer Bacon Harry Bateman Leonard Blumenthal Walter B. Carver Arthur Coble Teresa Cohen Aubrey E. Landry Francis Murnaghan Boyd Patterson Mabel M. Young |
Frank Morley (September 9, 1860 – October 17, 1937) was a leading mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields ofalgebra andgeometry. Among his mathematical accomplishments was the discovery and proof of the celebratedMorley's trisector theorem in elementaryplane geometry.
He led 50 Ph.D. students, includingClara Latimer Bacon, to their degrees, and was said to be
Morley was born in the town ofWoodbridge in Suffolk, England. His parents were Elizabeth Muskett and Joseph Roberts Morley,Quakers who ran achina shop. After being educated atWoodbridge School, Morley went on toKing's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1884).[2]
In 1887, Morley moved toPennsylvania. He taught atHaverford College until 1900, when he became chairman of the mathematics department atJohns Hopkins University. His publications includeElementary Treatise on the Theory of Functions (1893), withJames Harkness; andIntroduction to the Theory of Analytic Functions (1898). In 1897, he was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society.[3] He was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1917.[4] He was President of theAmerican Mathematical Society from 1919 to 1920[5] and was the editor of theAmerican Journal of Mathematics from 1900 to 1921. He was aninvited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1912 at Cambridge (England), in 1924 at Toronto, and in 1936 at Oslo.
In 1933 he and his sonFrank Vigor Morley published the "stimulating volume"Inversive Geometry.[6][7] The book developscomplex numbers as a tool for geometry andfunction theory. Some non-standard terminology is used such as "base-circle" forunit circle and "turn" for a point on it.
He was a strongchess player and once beat world chess championEmanuel Lasker in a game.
He died inBaltimore, Maryland, at age 77.
He had three sons: novelistChristopher Morley;Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, journalist, and college presidentFelix Morley; andFrank Vigor Morley, also a mathematician.
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