Harris Hancock is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Harris Hancock as mathematician (1867-1944).
Harris Hancock was born at Albemarle County in 1867. His recorded nationality is United States. He studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The nineteenth century made mathematics rigorous: definitions were tightened, foundations questioned, and whole fields created from scratch.
His academic posts were held at University of Cincinnati.
The recorded fields of work are mathematics.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from United States matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Harris Hancock died in 1944, aged 77. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Cincinnati
- Fields: mathematics
