Daniel Murray (mathematician)
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Daniel Alexander Murray (1862–1934) was a Canadian
Canada
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mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
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Murray was born in Colchester County, Nova Scotia
Colchester County, Nova Scotia
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, and was educated at Dalhousie
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University is a public research university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university comprises eleven faculties including Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. It also includes the faculties of architecture, planning and engineering located at...
and Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins University
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universities and in Berlin
Berlin
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and Paris
Paris
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. He was successively associate professor
Professor
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of mathematics at New York University
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, instructor at Cornell
Cornell University
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, professor at Dalhousie University, and, after 1907, professor of applied mathematics
Applied mathematics
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at McGill
McGill University
Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...
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Publications
- Introductory Course in Differential Equations (1897)
- An Elementary Course in the Integral CalculusCalculusCalculus is a branch of mathematics focused on limits, functions, derivatives, integrals, and infinite series. This subject constitutes a major part of modern mathematics education. It has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus, which are related by the fundamental theorem...
(1898) - Plane and Spherical Trigonometry (1902)
- Essentials of Trigonometry and Mensuration (1909)
- Elements of Plane TrigonometryTrigonometryTrigonometry is a branch of mathematics that studies triangles and the relationships between their sides and the angles between these sides. Trigonometry defines the trigonometric functions, which describe those relationships and have applicability to cyclical phenomena, such as waves...
(1911)