Earl D. Rainville

Professor Earl David Rainville (5 November 1907 – 29 April 1966[1]) taught in the Department of Engineering Mathematics at the University of Michigan, where he began as an assistant professor in 1941.[2] He studied at the University of Colorado,[3] receiving his B.A. there in 1930 before going on to graduate studies at Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in 1939 under the supervision of Ruel Churchill.[4]

He was the author of several textbooks.

  1. ^ "News and Notices", American Mathematical Monthly, 73 (10): 1147–1148, 1966, doi:10.1080/00029890.1966.11970907, ISSN 0002-9890, JSTOR 2314688.
  2. ^ "Notes", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 47 (11): 850–855, 1941, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1941-07553-1.
  3. ^ Louise Johnson Rosenbaum, Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Rainville is briefly mentioned as one of Rosenbaum's contemporaries at Colorado.
  4. ^ Earl D. Rainville at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.