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Encyclopedia > Holbrook Mann MacNeille

Holbrook Mann MacNeille (May 11, 1907September 30, 1973) was an American mathematician who worked for the United States Atomic Energy Commission before becoming the first Executive Director of the American Mathematical Society. May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 92 days remaining. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1973 calendar). ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Almost a year after World War II ended, Congress established the United States Atomic Energy Commission to foster and control the peace time development of atomic science and technology. ... The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and education, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards to mathematicians. ...

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Personnal Life

MacNeille was born May 11, 1907 in New York City and was raised in Summit, New Jersey, the first of two brothers. His father was Perry Robinson Macneille, an architect and urban planner and his mother Clausine Mann MacNeille who was active on the Summit Board of Education. His aunt was the Jung analyst Kristine Mann. Nickname: The Big Apple Official website: City of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area Total 468. ... Map of Summit in Union County Summit is a city located in Union County, New Jersey. ... Carl Gustav Jung Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of the neopsychoanalytic school of psychology. ... Kristine Mann (1873- 1945) was one of the first women psychoanalysts in the United States and studied under Carl Gustav Jung at his Küsnacht home in Zurich, Switzerland. ...


MacNeille went to the Summit Public Schools and summered in Bailey Island, Maine. At Bailey Island he became acquainted with Frank Aydelotte who encouraged him to go to Swarthmore College from which he graduated with highest honors in 1928. Following in Aydelotte's footsteps he was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, England 1928–1930 receiving a B.A. in 1930 and an M.A. in 1947. He received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1935 where he was the first student of Marshall Harvey Stone, was a Sterling Fellow at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut 1935–1936 and a Benjamin Peirce Instructor at Harvard between 1936–1938. During the summers he was also a partner in the Dave Richardson Laboratories in Bailey Island (Maine), which produced dogfish prepared for dissection at school laboratories. Bailey Island is an island in Casco Bay, and a part of the city of Harpswell, Maine, USA. As of the 2000 census, the island had a year-round population of 400. ... Official language(s) None Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 39th 86,542 km² 305 km 515 km 13. ... Frank Aydelotte (1880 - 1956) was a U.S. educator. ... Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, with an enrollment of about 1450 students. ... Rhodes House in Oxford Rhodes Scholarships were created by Cecil John Rhodes. ... Full name Balliol College Motto - Named after John de Balliol Previous names - Established 1263 Sister College St Johns College, Cambridge Master Andrew Graham (academic) Location Broad Street Undergraduates 403 Graduates 228 Homepage Boatclub Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford... Oxford is a city and local government district in Oxfordshire, England, with a population of 134,248 (2001 census). ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my [birth]right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages English (de facto) Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Marshall Harvey Stone (April 8, 1903 - January 9, 1989) was an American mathematician who made several important contributions in various areas of mathematical analysis, including in particular functional analysis. ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Nickname: The Elm City Official website: www. ... For others with a similar name, see Benjamin Pierce. ... Bailey Island is an island in Casco Bay, and a part of the city of Harpswell, Maine, USA. As of the 2000 census, the island had a year-round population of 400. ... Spiny Dogfish, Squalus acanthias The name dogfish is applied to a number of small sharks found in the northeast Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean, especially those in the three families Scyliorhinidae, Dalatiidae and Squalidae. ... Dissected rat showing major organs. ...


MacNeille's Ph.D work resulted in the Dedekind-MacNeille completion theorem (see Dedekind cut), a generalization of Richard Dedekind's construction of real numbers from the ordered set of rationals. In mathematics, a Dedekind cut, named after Richard Dedekind, in a totally ordered set S is a partition of it, (A, B), such that A is closed downwards (meaning that for all a in A, x ≤ a implies that x is in A as well) and B is closed upwards... Richard Dedekind Julius Wilhelm Richard Dedekind (October 6, 1831 – February 12, 1916) was a German mathematician who did important work in abstract algebra and the foundations of the real numbers. ...


Upon completing his studies, he taught mathematics at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio as an associate professor (1938–1941), full professor (1941–1947) and chairman of the department (1945–1947). Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of the The Episcopal Church. ... Gambier is a village located in Knox County, Ohio. ...


World War II

During several of the years at Kenyon College he was on leave as Scientific Liaison Officer (1944–1945) and Head of Mission (1945–1946) London Mission of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, American Embassy in London, England. During (1946–1948) he was Scientific Director of the London Branch Office of the U.S. Office of Naval Research and then during (1948–1949) spent more than a year as chief of the fundamental research branch of the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D.C. In 1948 he received the President's Certificate of Merit from President Truman. Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of the The Episcopal Church. ... In June of 1941, the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) superseded the committee structure [of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC)]. The OSRD projects gave the United States and Allied troops more powerful and more accurate bombs, more reliable detonators, lighter and more accurate weapons, safer and more... For other uses, see London (disambiguation) and Defining London (below). ... Almost a year after World War II ended, Congress established the United States Atomic Energy Commission to foster and control the peace time development of atomic science and technology. ... ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Certificate of Merit Medal The Certificate of Merit Medal was a military decoration of the United States Army which was issued between the years of 1905 to 1918. ... For the victim of Mt. ...


After World War II

In November 1949 he became executive director of the American Mathematical Society where he served until 1954. From 1954-1961 he was professor and chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and then from 1961 professor and chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio until his death. The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and education, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards to mathematicians. ... Washington University in St. ... Nickname: Gateway City, Gateway to the West, or Mound City Official website: http://stlouis. ... Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. It was formed in 1967 by the federation of Case Institute of Technology (founded in 1880 by philanthropist Leonard Case Jr. ... Nickname: The Forest City Motto: Progress and Prosperity Official website: www. ... Official language(s) None Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 34th 116,096 km² 355 km 355 km 8. ...


During this latter period he became interested in teaching, and directed several educational movies as part of the Calculus Film Project of the Educational Media Committee of the Mathematical Association of America. The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on undergraduate mathematics education. ...


Filmography

  • "Area under a curve"
  • "The definite integral"
  • "Volume of a solid of revolution"
  • "Infinite acres"
  • "Volume of a solid of a revolution"
  • "Volume by shells"
  • "Theorem of the Mean Policeman"

In calculus, the integral of a function is a generalization of area, mass, volume and total. ...

Awards and other positions

Rhodes House in Oxford The Rhodes Scholarships were created by Cecil Rhodes and have been awarded to applicants annually since 1902 by the Oxford-based Rhodes Trust on the basis of academic qualities, as well as those of character. ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The Presidents Certificate of Merit was created June 6, 1946 by Executive Order 9734 signed by US President Harry Truman for award by the President or at his direction to any civilian who on or after December 7, 1941 (see Attack on Pearl Harbor), has performed a meritorious act... For the victim of Mt. ... For the country formerly called Siam see Thailand SIAM is an acronym for Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ... The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an organization that promotes cooperation between scientists, defends scientific freedom, encourages scientific responsibility and supports scientific education for the betterment of all humanity. ... The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on undergraduate mathematics education. ... The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an honor society which considers its mission to be fostering and recognizing excellence in undergraduate liberal arts and sciences. ... Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society, founded in 1886, is a non-profit membership society of more than 70,000 scientists and engineers elected on the basis of their research achievements or potential. ...

Publications

  • H. M. MacNeille, Extensions of Partially Ordered Sets, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol. 22, 1936
  • H. M. MacNeille, Partially Ordered Sets, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Nov., 1937) , pp. 416-460
  • H. M. MacNeille, Extensions of Measure, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Vol 24, 1938
  • H. M. MacNeille, Extensions of Measure, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Apr. 15, 1938) , pp. 188-193
  • H. M. MacNeille, Lattices and Boolean Rings, Bull. AMS, 1939
  • H. M. MacNeille, Extension of a distributive lattice to a Boolean ring, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc, 1939
  • H. M. MacNeille, A Unified Theory of Integration, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 27, 1941

References

  • P.T. Johnstone, Stone Spaces, Cambridge University Press, (August 14, 1986), ISBN 0521337798
  • Everett Pitcher, A History of the Second Fifty Years, American Mathematical Society 1939-1988, American Mathematical Society, 1997, (Page 251), ISBN 0821801252
  • Who was who in America, Marquis Who's Who, Volume VI, 1974-1976 (Chicago, 1976), ISBN 083790207

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and education, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards to mathematicians. ... The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and education, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards to mathematicians. ...

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