Edward Burr Van Vleck
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Edward Burr Van Vleck (1863–1943) was an American mathematician, born in Middletown, Connecticut.
He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1884, attended Johns Hopkins in 1885-87, and studied at Göttingen (Ph.D., 1893). He was assistant professor and professor at Wesleyan (1895-1906), and professor at the University of Wisconsin after 1906. In 1913 he became president of the American Mathematical Society, of whose Transactions he became first associate editor (1902-05) and then editor (1905-10). He was the author of Theory of Divergent Series and Algebraic Continued Functions (1903), and of several monographs in mathematical journals.
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