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William C. Waterhouse

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William Charles Waterhouse (December 31, 1941 – June 26, 2016) was an American mathematician. He was a professor emeritus of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.^[1] His research interests included abstract algebra, number theory, group schemes, and the history of mathematics.^[1] He edited the 1966 English translation of Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae^[2] and was the author of the textbook Introduction to Affine Group Schemes.^[3]

In both 1961 and 1962, Waterhouse (at that time an undergraduate at Harvard University) earned a Putnam Fellowship as one of the top five competitors on the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition;^[4] with his 1962 performance, he led his school to a third-place team award.^[5] He received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Harvard, for work on abelian varieties under the supervision of John Tate,^[6]^[8] and took a faculty position at Cornell University.^[8] In 1975 he moved to Penn State.^[8]

Waterhouse has won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America twice, in 1984 for his paper "Do Symmetric Problems Have Symmetric Solutions?"^[7] and in 1995 for his paper "A Counterexample for Germain".^[8]

Personal life

Waterhouse died on June 26, 2016, in State College, Pennsylvania.^[9]

References

1. ^¹PSU Mathematics Department - Faculty, retrieved 2010-02-06.
2. ^Reprinted in 1986 by Springer-Verlag, {{ISBN|978-0-387-96254-2}}.
3. ^Graduate Texts in Mathematics 66, Springer-Verlag, 1979, {{ISBN|978-0-387-90421-4}}.
4. ^The Mathematical Association of America's William Lowell Putnam Competition, retrieved 2010-02-06.
5. ^{{citation|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1963/3/16/three-math-students-win-third-in/|title=Three Math Students Win Third in Contest|journal=The Harvard Crimson|date=March 16, 1963}}.
6. ^{{mathgenealogy|name=William Charles Waterhouse|id=22871}}.
7. ^¹²³MAA Writing Awards: Do Symmetric Problems Have Symmetric Solutions?, 1984.
8. ^MAA Writing Awards: A Counterexample for Germain.
9. ^{{citation|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/centredaily/obituary.aspx?pid=180493353|title=William C. Waterhouse Obituary|journal=Centre Daily Times|date=June 29, 2016}}.

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