About Cecil J. Nesbitt
Lived 1912 – 2001 (aged 88–89). Cecil J. Nesbitt was a Canadian and American actuary, mathematician and university teacher.
Cecil James Nesbitt, Ph.D., F.S.A., M.A.A.A. (1912–2001) was a mathematician who was a Ph.D. student of Richard Brauer and wrote many influential papers in the early history of modular representation theory.
Nesbitt taught actuarial mathematics at the University of Michigan from 1938 to 1980. Nesbitt was born in Ontario, Canada. He received his mathematical education at the University of Toronto and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He served the Society of Actuaries from 1985 to 1987 as Vice-President for Research and Studies. He developed the Schuette–Nesbitt formula with Donald R. Schuette.
Selected publications with Richard Brauer: with Emil Artin and Robert M. Thrall: with R. M. Thrall: with George H. Andrews: with J. J. McCutcheon: with Newton L. Bowers and James C. Hickman:
with Marjorie V. Butcher: Mathematics of Compound Interest. Ulrichs Books. 1971.
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Canadian actuary
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Cecil J. Nesbitt was born on 10 October 1912 in Thunder Bay.
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Cecil J. Nesbitt died in 2001.
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Cecil J. Nesbitt was an actuary, mathematician and university teacher.
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Cecil J. Nesbitt was Canadian and American.
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