Oliver Edmunds Glenn

Oliver E. Glenn
Born(1878-10-03)October 3, 1878
Vevay, Indiana, US
DiedNovember 17, 1959(1959-11-17) (aged 81)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Doctoral advisorGeorge Hervey Hallett
Doctoral studentsLowell Reed
Lennie Copeland

Oliver Edmunds Glenn (October 3, 1878[1] – November 17, 1959) was an American mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania who worked on finite groups and invariant theory.

He received the degrees of A.B. in 1902 and A.M. in 1903 from Indiana University Bloomington and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905. He married Alice Thomas Kinnard on August 18, 1903, and they had two sons, William James and Robert Culbertson. Glenn began his career instructing mathematics at Indiana University in 1902 and subsequently taught at Drury College (Springfield, Missouri). He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1906 where he became a full professor in 1914 and retired in 1930.[2]

He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1924 at Toronto,[3] in 1928 at Bologna,[4] and in 1932 at Zurich.[5][6]

He died in 1959 in Philadelphia.[7]

  1. ^ University of Pennsylvania Bulletin
  2. ^ "Glenn, Oliver Edmunds". Indiana authors and their books 1917–1966, Indiana University, indiana.edu.
  3. ^ Glenn, Oliver E. "A Note on the Abundance of Differential Combinants in a Fundamental System." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 11, number 6 (1925): pages 281–284.
  4. ^ Glenn, O. E. "The complex realm modulo n, an arbitrary integer." In Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici: Bologna del 3 al 10 de settembre di 1928, volume 2, pages 43–50. 1929.
  5. ^ Richardson, R. G. D. (1932). "International Congress of Mathematicians, Zurich, 1932". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (11): 769–774. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1932-05491-X. O. E. Glenn's talk has the title "The mechanics of the stability of a central orbit." (See page 771.)
  6. ^ Glenn, Oliver E. "The mechanics of the stability of a central orbit." Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa-Classe di Scienze 2, number 3 (1933): pages 297–308.
  7. ^ "Deaths". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 19, 1959. p. 46. Retrieved March 5, 2024.