Edward Burr Van Vleck (June 7, 1863 – June 2, 1943)^[1] was anAmericanmathematician.

Van Vleck was born June 7, 1863,Middletown, Connecticut. He was the son of astronomerJohn Monroe Van Vleck, he graduated fromWesleyan University in 1884, attendedJohns Hopkins in 1885–1887, and studied atGöttingen (Ph.D., 1893). He also received 1 July 1914 anhonorary doctorate of theUniversity of Groningen (The Netherlands).^[2][3] He was assistant professor and professor atWesleyan (1895–1906), and after 1906 a professor at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, where the mathematics building is named after him.^[4] His doctoral students includeH. S. Wall. In 1913 he became president of theAmerican Mathematical Society, of whoseTransactions he had been first associate editor (1902–1905) and then editor (1905–1910). He was the author ofTheory of Divergent Series and Algebraic Continued Fractions (1903) and of several monographs in mathematical journals. His son,John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, was a notable physicist and received theNobel Prize in 1977.

E. B. Van Vleck is also important art collector, particularly in the medium of Japanese woodblock prints (principallyUkiyo-e), known asVan Vleck Collection. He began collecting around 1909, but became a serious collector in the late 1920s, when he acquired approximately 4,000 prints that had been owned byFrank Lloyd Wright. His collection, one of the largest in the world outside theLibrary of Congress, features more than 2,000 prints byUtagawa Hiroshige as well as many prints byHokusai, and fine examples ofshin hanga (new prints) made well into the 20th century. His collection now resides at theChazen Museum of Art inMadison, Wisconsin.^[5]

Van Vleck died at his home in Madison on June 2, 1943, and was buried atForest Hill Cemetery.^[6]

• Van Vleck, E. B. (1898)."On the polynomials of Stieltjes".Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.4 (9):426–438.doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1898-00531-1.MR 1557633.
• Van Vleck, E. B. (1901)."On the convergence of continued fractions with complex elements".Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.2 (3):215–233.doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1901-1500565-4.MR 1500565.
• Van Vleck, Edward B. (1902)."A determination of the number of real and imaginary roots of the hypergeometric series".Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.3 (1):110–131.doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1902-1500590-4.MR 1500456.
• Van Vleck, Edward B. (1904)."On the convergence of algebraic continued fractions whose coefficients have limiting values".Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.5 (3):253–262.doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1904-1500672-9.MR 1500672.
• Selected topics in the theory of divergent series and of continued fractions (New York; MacMillan, 1905).

• Arcsine law
• Gauss's continued fraction
• Van Vleck polynomials
• Van Vleck's theorem
• Carol S. Wood, Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics, Emerita at Wesleyan

• O'Connor, John J.;Robertson, Edmund F.,"Edward Burr Van Vleck",MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive,University of St Andrews
• Edward Burr Van Vleck at theMathematics Genealogy Project

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