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Introduction to Mathematical Literature, Theory and Application of Finite Groups
, and
approximately 820 scholarly articles on research, group theory, mathematics and the history of
mathematics. This includes 70 articles for the American Mathematical Monthly where he holds
the record for number of contributions (MAA, 2011a). In a 1912 letter H. E. Slaught stated:
In fact, I do not know what we [the American Mathematical Monthly] should have done
without the editorial co-operation of Professor Miller. He is doing, in my judgment, a
very valuable piece of work. The articles which he contributes cannot fail to be of great
value to the ordinary college teacher of Mathematics, and the spirit in which he does it is
one of such power and devotion to the cause that it cannot fail to elicit the commendation
of all who are disposed to look at the matter seriously. (MAA, 2011a, p. 1)
Miller was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (MAA, 2011a,
p. 1). Brahana’s (1957) biography of Miller includes all of his publications.
Doctoral Students
Miller, a mathematician, had at least 14 dissertation students; three were at Cornell
University, one at Stanford University, and eleven at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign (Brahana, 1957; Math, 2011; ProQuest, 2011).
Cornell University.
1.
Harry Waldo Kuhn, 1901, On Primitive Substitution Groups
2.
William Benjamin Fite, 1901, On Metabelian Groups
3.
Henry Lewis Rietz, 1902, On Primitive Groups of Odd Order
Stanford University.
4.
William Albert Manning, 1904, Studies on the Class of Primitive Substitution Groups
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
5.
Elizabeth Ruth Bennett, 1910, Primitive Groups with a Determination of the Primitive
groups of Degree 20
6.
Josephine Elizabeth Burns, 1913,
The Abstract Definitions of Groups of Degree 8
7.
Edward August Theodore Kircher, 1914, Group Properties of the Residue Classes of
Certain Kronecker Modular Systems and some Related Generalizations in Number
Theory
8.
Louis Clark Mathewson, 1914,
Theorems on the Groups of Isomorphisms of Certain
Groups
9.
George Rutledge, 1915, The Number of Abelian Subgroups of Groups Whose Orders are
the Powers of Primes
[Dissertation not listed in ProQuest (2011) database]
10.
Beulah Armstrong, 1921, Mathematical Induction in Group Theory [Dissertation not
listed in ProQuest (2011) database]
11.
William Edmund Edington, 1921,
Abstract Group Definitions and Applications
12.
Harry Albert Bender, 1923,
Sylow Subgroups in the Group of Isomorphisms of the Prime
Power Abelian Groups
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13.
Francis Edgar Johnston, 1926, Transitive Substitution Groups Containing Regular
Subgroups of Lower Degree
14.
Charles Hopkins, 1927,
Non-Abelian Groups whose Groups of Isomorphisms are Abelian
Miller’s third doctoral student at Cornell University (Reitz) continues the advisor
genealogy of this paper.
Henry Lewis Rietz
Henry Lewis Rietz was born in
Gilmore, Ohio on August 24, 1875 and died in
Iowa City, Iowa on December 7, 1943. He
was the son of Jacob and Tabitha Jane Rietz
(Crathorne, 1944).
Education
Reitz received his B.S. from Ohio
State University in 1899 (MAA, 2011b) and
his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1902.
The title of his 99-page dissertation was On
Primitive Groups of Odd Order
(Proquest,
2011). A copy of his dissertation’s title page
can be seen near this paragraph and the first 30
pages of his dissertation can be viewed at:
http://www.archive.org/details/cu3192403218
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Research and Teaching
Rietz taught at Butler College (1902-1903) after receiving his Ph.D. Rietz left Butler
College and …
was an instructor and professor at the University of Illinois from 1903 to 1918. From
Illinois he moved to the University of Iowa as professor and head of the mathematics
department in 1918. He held both positions until he retired in September 1943. At the
same time, he worked as an actuary and consultant for several organizations. Rietz
published more than 150 papers and at least eleven books. (MAA, 2011b, p. 1)
Reitz’s books included Handbook of Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics of
Finance, School Algebra, Mathematical Statistics, College Algebra, Plane and Spherical
Trigonometry.
In his paper: On the history of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of
Iowa
Robert Hogg (2003) states that
…in 1905 [Rietz] started publishing some stat[istics] papers. And that increased through
about 1910. And then in 1011 he published “On the Theory of Risk.” It had good
probability, good math stat, but this was sort of his beginning with Actuarial Science.