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Claiborne Green Latimer (1893–1960) was an American mathematician, known for the Latimer–MacDuffee theorem.

Career

Latimer earned his PhD in 1924 from the University of Chicago under Leonard Dickson with thesis Arithmetic of Generalized Quaternion Algebras. He was an assistant professor at Tulane University for 2 years, before becoming a mathematics professor at the University of Kentucky in 1927. After 20 years at the University of Kentucky, he resigned in 1947 and became a professor at Emory University. Latimer was an amateur photographer; some of his photographs are preserved in the archives of the University of Kentucky and Emory University.

References

1. Claiborne Latimer; C. C. MacDuffee (1933). "A Correspondence Between Classes of Ideals and Classes of Matrices". The Annals of Mathematics. 34 (2): 317–338. doi:10.2307/1968204. JSTOR 1968204.
2. Claiborne Latimer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. Farmers Advocate. Charles Town, West Virginia: 1. June 4, 1927.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
4. "Dr. Latimer Resigns". Farmers Advocate. Charles Town, West Virginia: 5. April 4, 1947.
5. Edward Fisk from edwardfisk.com

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