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John Charles Fields
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Our Toronto Correspondent telegraphs that Professor John Charles Fields, F.R.S., Research Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, died on Tuesday at Toronto at the age of 69. Of Scots-Irish extraction, he was born at Hamilton, Canada, and was educated at the Universities of Toronto, Johns Hopkins (Ph.D. and Fellow), Paris, Göttingen, and Berlin (where he was awarded a gold medal for mathematics). He was well known to mathematicians in Europe, where he traveled from 1992 to 1900, and was the author of a treatise on algebraic functions and various papers published in the transactions of societies and in mathematical journals. Professor Fields was elected F.R.S. in 1913. He was president of the International Mathematical Congress and honorary president of the International Mathematical Union in 1924, and vice-president of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1938. He was an honorary life member and past-president of the Royal Canadian Institute and a follower of the Royal Society of Canada,
Our Toronto Correspondent telegraphs that Professor John Charles Fields, F.R.S., Research Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, died on Tuesday at Toronto at the age of 69. Of Scots-Irish extraction, he was born at Hamilton, Canada, and was educated at the Universities of Toronto, Johns Hopkins (Ph.D. and Fellow), Paris, Göttingen, and Berlin (where he was awarded a gold medal for mathematics). He was well known to mathematicians in Europe, where he traveled from 1992 to 1900, and was the author of a treatise on algebraic functions and various papers published in the transactions of societies and in mathematical journals. Professor Fields was elected F.R.S. in 1913. He was president of the International Mathematical Congress and honorary president of the International Mathematical Union in 1924, and vice-president of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1938. He was an honorary life member and past-president of the Royal Canadian Institute and a follower of the Royal Society of Canada,
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