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American mathematician

Claiborne Green Latimer (1893–1960) was an American mathematician, known for the Latimer–MacDuffee theorem.[1]

Latimer earned his PhD in 1924 from the University of Chicago under Leonard Dickson with thesis Arithmetic of Generalized Quaternion Algebras.[2] He was an assistant professor at Tulane University for 2 years,[3] before becoming a mathematics professor at the University of Kentucky in 1927. After 20 years at the University of Kentucky, he resigned in 1947 and became a professor at Emory University.[4] Latimer was an amateur photographer; some of his photographs are preserved in the archives of the University of Kentucky and Emory University.[5]

1. ^ Claiborne Latimer; C. C. MacDuffee (1933). "A Correspondence Between Classes of Ideals and Classes of Matrices". The Annals of Mathematics. 34 (2): 317–338. doi:10.2307/1968204. JSTOR 1968204.
2. ^ Claiborne Latimer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. ^ Farmers Advocate. Charles Town, West Virginia: 1. June 4, 1927.{{[cite journal](/wiki/Template:Cite%5Fjournal "Template:Cite journal")}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
4. ^ "Dr. Latimer Resigns". Farmers Advocate. Charles Town, West Virginia: 5. April 4, 1947.
5. ^ Edward Fisk from edwardfisk.com