Oliver Edmunds Glenn

American mathematician

Oliver E. Glenn
Born	(1878-10-03)October 3, 1878 Vevay, Indiana, US
Died	November 17, 1959(1959-11-17) (aged 81) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral advisor	George Hervey Hallett
Doctoral students	Lowell Reed

Oliver Edmunds Glenn (October 3, 1878^[1] – November 17, 1959) was an American mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania who worked on finite groups and invariant theory.

He received the degrees of A.B. in 1902 and A.M. in 1903 from Indiana University Bloomington and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905. He married Alice Thomas Kinnard on August 18, 1903, and they had two sons, William James and Robert Culbertson. Glenn began his career instructing mathematics at Indiana University in 1902 and subsequently taught at Drury College (Springfield, Missouri). He joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1906 where he became a full professor in 1914 and retired in 1930.^[2]

He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1924 at Toronto,^[3] in 1928 at Bologna,^[4] and in 1932 at Zurich.^[5]^[6]

He died in 1959 in Philadelphia.^[7]

References

^ University of Pennsylvania Bulletin
^ "Glenn, Oliver Edmunds". Indiana authors and their books 1917–1966, Indiana University, indiana.edu.
^ Glenn, Oliver E. "A Note on the Abundance of Differential Combinants in a Fundamental System." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 11, number 6 (1925): pages 281–284.
^ Glenn, O. E. "The complex realm modulo n, an arbitrary integer." In Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici: Bologna del 3 al 10 de settembre di 1928, volume 2, pages 43–50. 1929.
^ Richardson, R. G. D. (1932). "International Congress of Mathematicians, Zurich, 1932". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (11): 769–774. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1932-05491-X. O. E. Glenn's talk has the title "The mechanics of the stability of a central orbit." (See page 771.)
^ Glenn, Oliver E. "The mechanics of the stability of a central orbit." Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa-Classe di Scienze 2, number 3 (1933): pages 297–308.
^ "Deaths". The Philadelphia Inquirer. November 19, 1959. p. 46. Retrieved March 5, 2024.

Glenn, Oliver E. (1915), A Treatise on the Theory of Invariants, Ginn and company, ISBN 978-1-4297-0030-6
Glenn, Oliver E. (1915), "Modular invariant processes", Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 21 (4): 167–173, doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1915-02589-9
Glenn, Oliver E. (1919), "Covariants of Binary Modular Groups", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 5 (4): 107–110, Bibcode:1919PNAS....5..107E, doi:10.1073/pnas.5.4.107, PMC 1091545, PMID 16576354
Glenn, Oliver E. (1928), "Complete Systems of Differential Invariants", Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 2 (1): 72–80, doi:10.1112/plms/s2-27.1.72
Glenn, Oliver E. (1955), "Mathematics and Autobiography", Mathematics Magazine, 28 (5), Mathematical Association of America: 299–302, doi:10.2307/3029424, ISSN 0025-570X, JSTOR 3029424
Oliver Edmunds Glenn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project