Mathematician:Norman Herbert Anning

Mathematician

Canadian mathematician, best known for the Erdős-Anning Theorem.

Nationality

Canadian-American

History

• Born: August 28, 1883
• Died: May 1, 1963

Theorems and Definitions

• Erdős-Anning Theorem (with Paul Erdős)
• Anning's Theorem

Results named for Norman Herbert Anning can be found here.

Publications

• 1915: To Find Approximate Square Roots (School Science and Mathematics Vol. 15: pp. 245 – 246)

• 1916: Note On Triangles Whose Sides Are Whole Numbers (School Science and Mathematics Vol. 16: pp. 82 – 83)

• 1917: Another Method Of Deriving $\sin 2 \alpha$, $\sin 3 \alpha$, And So On (School Science and Mathematics Vol. 17: pp. 43 – 44)

• 1923: Socrates Teaches Mathematics (School Science and Mathematics Vol. 23: pp. 581 – 584)

• 1925: A Device For Teachers Of Trigonometry (School Science and Mathematics Vol. 25: pp. 739 – 740)

• 1929: What Are The Chances That; A Few Questions (School Science and Mathematics Vol. 29: pp. 460 – 460)

• 1935: Problems for Solution: 3739-3743 (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 42: pp. 396 – 397) (with Paul Erdős, H.D. Ruderman and Maud Willey)  www.jstor.org/stable/2301373

• 1945: Integral distances (Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Vol. 51: pp. 598 – 600) (with Paul Erdős)

• 1956: ??? (Scripta Math. Vol. 22: p. 227) (in which Anning's Theorem is presented)