Mathematician:Harry Schultz Vandiver

Mathematician

American mathematician known for his work in number theory.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 21 October 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Died: 9 January 1973 in Austin, Texas, USA

Publications

• 1902: A Problem Connected with Mersenne's Numbers (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 9: pp. 34 – 36)  www.jstor.org/stable/2967669

• 1902: Applications of a Theorem Regarding Circulants (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 9: pp. 96 – 98)  www.jstor.org/stable/2971433

• 1904: On Some Special Arithmetic Congruences (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 11: pp. 51 – 56)  www.jstor.org/stable/2970519

• 1904: On the Integral Divisors of $a^n-b^n$ (Ann. Math. Vol. 5: pp. 173 – 180) (with George David Birkhoff)  www.jstor.org/stable/2007263

• 1912: Theory of finite algebras (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 13: pp. 293 – 304)  www.jstor.org/stable/1988757

• 1914: Note on Fermat's Last Theorem (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 15: pp. 202 – 204)  www.jstor.org/stable/1988753

• 1917: Symmetric functions formed by systems of elements of a finite algebra and their connection with Fermat's quotient and Bernoulli's numbers

• 1917: The generalized Lagrange indeterminate congruence for a composite ideal modulus

• 1919: A property of cyclotomic integers and its relation to Fermat's last theorem

• 1924: A new type of criteria for the first case of Fermat's last theorem

• 1925: A property of cyclotomic integers and its relation to Fermat's last theorem

• 1929: On Fermat's Last Theorem (Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 31: pp. 613 – 642)  www.jstor.org/stable/1989553

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Harry Schultz Vandiver": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive