Charles Thompson Sullivan

Charles Thompson Sullivan, FRSC (9 September 1882, Manchester, Nova Scotia – 17 September 1948, Montreal) was a Canadian mathematician.[1]

Education and career

Sullivan graduated with B.A. in 1906 from Dalhousie University and was Science Master at Alberta College, Edmonton from 1906 to 1908. He enrolled as a graduate student in 1908 at McGill University and graduated there with M.Sc. in 1909. In 1910 he became a lecturer in mathematics at McGill. At the University of Chicago he attended summer quarters in 1909 and in 1910 and (with a leave of absence from McGill) 4 consecutive quarters in 1911-1912, graduating with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1912.[2] His thesis advisor was Ernest Julius Wilczynski.[3] After completing his Ph.D., Sullivan returned to McGill. He was the chair of the mathematics department of McGill University for 16 years, starting in 1930. He retired in 1947.[4]

He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1924 at Toronto.[5]

Selected publications

  • "Properties of surfaces whose asymptotic curves belong to linear complexes." Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 15 (1914): 167–196. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1914-1500971-7
  • "Scroll directrix curves." Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 16 (1915): 199–214. doi:10.2307/1988717
  • "The determination of plane nets characterized by certain properties of their Laplace transforms." Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 35, no. 4 (1929): 549–552. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1929-04761-X

References

  1. ^ "Application for Registration of Birth" (JPG).
  2. ^ Sullivan, C. T. (1912). "Vita". Properties of surfaces whose asymptotic curvers belong to linear complexes (Dissertation, U. of Chicago). Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Press of the New Era Publishing Company. p. 197.
  3. ^ Charles Thompson Sullivan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Dr. Sullivan". McGill Daily. Vol. 35, no. 65. 22 January 1948.
  5. ^ Sullivan, C. T. "The determination of surfaces characterized by a reduclble directrix quadric" (PDF). In: Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto, August 11–16. 1924. Vol. 1. pp. 769–790.