Fabian Franklin
| Fabian Franklin | |
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| Born | January 18, 1853 Eger, Hungary |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. New York City |
| Resting place | Ferncliff Cemetery |
| Fields | Mathematics, Engineering, Journalism |
| Institutions | Baltimore City Council Johns Hopkins University New York Post |
| Alma mater | Columbian College Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | Bipunctual Coordinates (1880) |
| Doctoral advisor | James Joseph Sylvester |
| Notable students | Henry A. Bumstead |
| Spouse | Christine Ladd-Franklin |
Fabian Franklin (18 January 1853 – 9 January 1939) was an American (Hungarian born) engineer, mathematician and journalist.
Life and work
The Franklin family (his parents were born in Poland) migrated from Hungary to Philadelphia (United States) when Fabian Franklin was four years old and they afterwards moved to Washington, D.C. in 1861. He was educated at Columbian College (now George Washington University) where he graduated Ph.B. in 1869. Franklin worked the following seven years as surveyor and engineer for the Baltimore City Council.[1]
When Johns Hopkins University was founded in 1876, he had the opportunity to study mathematics, his true passion. He was awarded a doctorate in 1880[2] and he was the assistant of James Joseph Sylvester til his return to England in 1883, applying the new calculational techniques to compute binary forms.[3] In 1882 he married Christine Ladd-Franklin. During his short university period, some fifteen years, he published thirty papers, most of which appeared in the American Journal of Mathematics.[4]
In 1895 he left the university to begin a new career as journalist and writer.[1] First as editor of Baltimore News (from 1895 to 1908) and after as associate editor of New York Evening Post (from 1909 to 1919). He also wrote some remarkable books on social, economic and political issues like Cost of living (1915),[5] What Prohibition Has Done to America (1922) and Plain Talks on Economics: Leading Principles and Their Application to the Issues of Today (1924) among others. He also collaborated in the launching of The Weekly Review (1919–1922), a journal devoted to the Consideration of Politics, of Social and Economic Tendencies, of History, Literature, and the Arts. He also wrote a biography of the founding president of Johns Hopkins University, The Life of Daniel Coit Gilman (1910).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 O'Connor & Robertson, MacTutor History of Mathematics.
- ↑ While a published version of his dissertation appeared in the American Journal of Mathematics in 1878, three sources agree that his PhD was conferred in 1880. See Johns Hopkins Half-Century Directory (1926), p. 119; Karen H. Parshall, James Joseph Sylvester (2006), p. 258; and the Johns Hopkins University Circulars, 1880
- ↑ Parshall & Rowe 1994, p. 107.
- ↑ Murnaghan 1939, p. 283.
- ↑ Rauchway 2001, pp. 899–902.
Bibliography
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External links
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- Works by Fabian Franklin at JSTOR
- Works by Fabian Franklin at Unz.com
