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Louis Weisner

1899 – 1988

Canadian mathematician

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Lived 1899 – 1988 (aged 88–89). Louis Weisner was a mathematician and university teacher.

Louis Weisner (born 1899–1988) was an American-Canadian mathematician at the University of New Brunswick who introduced Weisner's method.

He graduated in 1923 from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in mathematics. His thesis Groups whose maximal cyclic subgroups are independent was supervised by Frank Nelson Cole. As a postdoc, Weisner was an instructor at the University of Rochester. At Hunter College he was appointed an instructor in 1927 and was successively promoted to assistant professor and associate professor. When he was an associate professor in 1954, the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York charged him with "neglect of duty" and "conduct unbecoming a member of the staff" because of his alleged involvement, beginning "in or about the year 1938", with the Communist Party. From 1955 to 1988 he was a professor of mathematics at the University of New Brunswick.

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Books (reprint of 1938 1st edition)

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Important facts

Born
1899
Birth century
Died
1988
Education
Columbia University
Employers
Hunter College, University of New Brunswick

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Who was Louis Weisner?

Canadian mathematician

When was Louis Weisner born?

Louis Weisner was born in 1899.

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Louis Weisner died in 1988.

What was Louis Weisner's occupation?

Louis Weisner was a mathematician and university teacher.

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· Wikipedia: Louis Weisner

· Wikidata: Q6688363

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