Notes for George Bruce HALSTED

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Notes for George Bruce HALSTED

The 20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol.5,
p.47
HALSTED, George Bruce, mathematician, was born in Newark, N.J., Nov.
25, 1853; son of Oliver Spencer, Jr., and Adela (Mocker) {sic} Halsted, and
grandson of Oliver Spencer and Mary (Hatfield) Halsted, and of Samuel
and Martha (Harbeck) Meeker. His grandmother, Mary Hatfield, was a
granddaughter of Abraham Clark, signer of the Declaration of
Independence. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., in
1875, with the mathematical fellowship; and A.M., 1878: held a
fellowship at Johns Hopkins, 1876-78, and received the degree of Ph.D.
from the latter institution in 1879. He was tutor in the College of
New Jersey, 1879-81, and instructor in advanced mathematics there,
1881-84. He, then became professor of mathematics in the University of
Texas. As expert, he made in 1899 to the American association for the
advance, ment of science, by invitation, a report on progress in
non-Euclidean geometry. He was elected a member of the Société
Mathématique de France; of the Circolo Matemico di Palermo, of the
London mathematical society, and fellow of the Americaln association
for the advancement of science. He was the originator of "Halsted's
prismoidal formula" and is the author of several text books including:
Bibliography of Hyper-Space and Non-Euclidean Geometry (1878);
Mensuration (1881; 4th ed., 1892; Metrical Geometry (1885); Elements
of Geometry (1885; 6th ed., 1895); Lobatschewsky's Non Euclidean
Geometry (1891; 4th ed., 1892); Boryai's Science Absolute of Space
(1891; 4th ed., 1896); and Synthetic Geometry (1892; 2d ed., 1893);
besides contributions to scientifio journals.

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