Cecil James Nesbitt, Ph.D., F.S.A., M.A.A.A. (1912 – 2001) was a mathematician who was a Ph.D. student of Richard Brauer

Richard Brauer

Richard Dagobert Brauer was a leading German and American mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory...

 and wrote many influential papers in the early history of modular representation theory

Modular representation theory

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. He taught actuarial mathematics

Actuarial science

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 at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 from 1938 to 1980. Nesbitt was born in Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. He received his mathematical education at the University of Toronto

University of Toronto

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 and the Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Advanced Study

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 in Princeton

Princeton, New Jersey

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. He served the Society of Actuaries

Society of Actuaries

The Society of Actuaries is a professional organization for actuaries based in North America. It was founded in 1949 as the merger of two major actuarial organizations in the United States: the Actuarial Society of America and the American Institute of Actuaries...

 from 1985 to 1987 as Vice-President for Research and Studies. He developed the Schuette-Nesbitt formula with Donald R. Schuette

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