Cyrus Colton MacDuffee (June 29, 1895 - August 21, 1961) from Oneida, New York

Oneida, New York

Oneida is a city in Madison County located west of Oneida Castle and east of Canastota, New York, United States. The population was 10,987 at the 2000 census. The city, like both Oneida County and the nearby silver and china maker, takes its name from the Oneida tribe...

 was a professor of mathematics at University of Wisconsin.
He wrote a number of influential research papers in abstract algebra

Abstract algebra

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. MacDuffee served on the Council of the American Mathematical Society

American Mathematical Society

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 (A.M.S.), was editor of the Transactions of the A.M.S., and served as president of the Mathematical Association of America

Mathematical Association of America

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 (M.A.A).

MacDuffee obtained his B.S. degree in 1917 from Colgate University

Colgate University

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 and a Ph.D. in 1922 from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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 ; his thesis was on Nonassociative algebras under the direction of Leonard E. Dickson. In 1935, MacDuffee joined the University of Wisconsin, where he remained until his death in 1961. He served as chair of the department(1951–56). Later, Wisconsin endowed a university chair under his name. Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin, he served at Princeton

Princeton University

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 and Ohio State

Ohio State University

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. He guided 30 Ph.D. students, among them Herbert Ryser.

Books

• [Book] The theory of matrices, CC MacDuffee - 2004 - books.google.com
• [BOOK] Theory of equations, CC MacDuffee - 1954 - Wiley
• Vectors and matrices, CC MacDuffee - Bull. Amer. Math. Soc, 1946 - ams.org
• An introduction to abstract algebra, CC MacDuffee - New York, 1940 - ams.org