Cornell Mathematics Doctorates, 1960-1969.
The sixties are a period of extraordinary growth at Cornell and in US higher education in general. It is also the period of the Vietnam War protests on Campuses and of the racial tensions that led to the occupation of Willard Straight in 1969.
Before 1960, 161 Ph.D.s were awarded in mathematics at Cornell. Between 1940 and 1959, the average number of doctorates was a very steady 3 per year.
Seventy three Mathematics Ph.D.s were awarded at Cornell in the sixties, twenty one during the first half of the decade and fifty two during the second half. Eight Ph.D.s were earned by women. The year 1965 is the first in which more than 10 doctorates wee awarded. Twenty two faculty supervised at least one Ph.D. during this period. The most active were Anil Nerode (11), Peter Hilton and Alex F.T.W. Rosenberg (6), Jack Kiefer (5) Israel Berstein, Wolfgang Fuchs and Gerald Sacks (4). Remarkably, Sacks is also one of the students who received their Ph.D. during this period.
1960 (3 doctorates)
Martin Arkowitz
Title: The Generalized Whitehead Product. Advisor: Peter Hilton and Paul Olum. Career: Dartmouth College.
Alan Gustave Konheim
Title: Some Properties of a Class of Finite Trigonometric Sums. Advisor: Mark Kac. Career: IBM; Computer Sciences at University of California Santa Barbara.
Samuel Kotz
Title: Exponential Bounds for the Probability of Error in Discrete Memoryless Channels. Advisor: Jacob Wolfowitz. Career: University of Toronto; Temple University; University of Maryland; Operations Research Department at George Washington University. Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the Royal Statistical Society.
1961 (3 doctorates)
Roger David Joseph
Title: Contribution to Perceptron Theory. Advisor: Mark Kac. Career: unknown.
Shing-Meng Lee
Title: On a Two-Parameter Family of Summation Methods. Advisor: Ralph Agnew. Career: Taiwan, National Tsing Hua University.
Gerald Enoch Sacks
Title: On Suborderings of Degrees of Recursive Insolvability. Advisor: John Barkley Rosser. Career: Cornell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard University. Supervised over 30 Ph.D.s and has over 500 mathematical descendants. Speaker at the 1970 International Congress in Nice. The Sacks Prize is awarded annually by the Association for Symbolic Logic for the most outstanding doctoral dissertation in mathematical logic.
No doctorate awarded in 1962.
1963 (6 doctorates)
Charles Arnold Berger
Title: Normal Dilations. Advisor: Morris Schreiber. Career: Lehman College, City University of New York.
Gordon Elliott Brown
Title: On Commutators in Certain Lie Algebras. Advisor: Israel N. Herstein. Career: University of Colorado, Boulder.
Frans Martin Djorup
Title: On the Operator Equation AX=XB. Advisor: Morris Schreiber. Career: University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Institute of Defense Analyses.
David Stanley Newman
Title: On the Exact Calculation of the Partition Function of one dimensional Systems. Advisor: Mark Kac. Career: Boeing Company, Aerospace Group.
David Freeman
Title: Tabulation of Transcendental Functions by the Continued Fraction of Gauss. Advisor: John Barkley Rosser. Career: Computer Industry.
Gerald Joseph Porter
Title: Higher Order Whitehead Products. Advisor: William Browder Career: University of Pennsylvania.
1964 (9 doctorates)
Bruce Alan Barnes
Title: Modular Annihilator Algebras. Advisor: Robert A. Bonic. Career: University of Oregon.
Lawrence David Brown
Title: On the Admissibility of Invariant Estimators of Location Parameters.
Advisor: Jack Kiefer. Career: University of California Berkeley; Cornell; Rutgers University; Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; President of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; member of the National Academy of Sciences. Speaker at the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing.
Ross Hunter Cornell
Title: Commutator Product in Function Spaces. Advisor: Israel Berstein. Career: Wellesley College.
Paul Stephen Green
Title: KSC*(X), An Extraordinary Cohomology Theory. Advisor: Israel Berstein and William Browder. Career: University of Maryland.
Chia-Hui Shih
Title: On Secondary Operations in Homotopy and Homology. Advisor: Peter Hilton. Career: National Taiwan University.
Jerrold Norman Siegel
Title: Generalized Homology with Continuous Coefficients. Advisor: Israel Berstein. Career: University of Missouri, St. Louis.
Walter William Whitman
Title: Some Strong Laws for Random Walks and Brownian Motion. Advisor: Frank Spitzer. Career: unknown.
Carol Euwema Wolf
Title: Partial Recursive Operators on Recursively Closed Sets. Advisor: Anil Nerode. Career: Computer Science at Pace University.
Yuen-Fat Wong
Title: Pi-Manifolds and Homotopy Type of Manifolds. Advisor: William Browder. Career: DePaul University.
1965 (12 doctorates)
Clark Tabor Benson
Title: Generalized Quadrangles and (B,N) Pairs. Advisor: Walter Feit. Career: University of Arizona, National Security Agency.
Graham Cameron Driscoll
Title: Contributions to Metarecursion Theory. Advisor: Gerald Sacks. Career: IBM.
Louise Schmir Hay
Title: Topics in Recursion Theory: 1. The Co-simple Isols 2. Creative Sets. Advisor: Anil Nerode. Career: Mount Holyoke; University of Illinois at Chicago. Founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics. The AWM has established the Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education.
Marcel Herzog
Title: On Finite Groups with a Subgroup Containing the Normalizer of Each of Its Nonunit Elements. Advisor: Walter Feit. Career: Tel Aviv University.
Sol Kaufman
Title: Asymptotic Efficiency of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator. Advisor: Jacob Wolfowitz. Career: Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory.
Alfred Berry Manaster
Title: Higher Order Indecomposable Isols. Advisor: Anil Nerode. Career: University of California, San Diego.
Alan McConnell
Title: On Amitsur Cohomology. Advisor: Alex F.T.W. Rosenberg. Career: Howard University.
John Crawford Mineka
Title: The Existence and Uniqueness of Positive Solutions to the Wiener-Hopf Equation with Positive Kernel. Advisor: Frank Spitzer. Career: Lehman College of the the City University of New York.
Irwin Samuel Pressman
Title: A Comparison of Two Functors in Homological Algebra. Advisor: Peter Hilton. Career: Carleton University.
David Edward Schroer
Title: Church-Rosser Theorem. Advisor: Anil Nerode and John Barkley Rosser. Career: Adelphi University.
Alan Schumitzky
Title: Wiman-Valiron Theory for Entire Functions of Several Variables. Advisor: Wolfgang Fuchs. Career: University of Southern California.
Kenneth Gordon Whyburn
Title: Operational Calculus and Related Topics. Advisor: Gilbert Hunt. Career: University of Washington; Lawyer specializing in Tax law in San Francisco.
1966 (12 doctorates)
Lindsay Nathan Childs
Title: A Galois Theory for Separable Algebras. Advisor: Alex F.T.W. Rosenberg. Career: State University of New York at Albany.
David Drasin
Title: An Integral Tauberian Theorem and Other Topics. Advisor: Wolfgang Fuchs. Career: Purdue University.
Serge Dubuc
Title: Topological Convex Spaces. Advisor: James Eells. Career: Université de Montréal.
Michael Fisher
Title: Singular Integrals on Hilbert Space. Advisor: Leonard Gross. Career: University of Montana.
Gary Allen Lorden
Title: Integrated Risk of Asymptotically Bayes Sequential Tests and Some Essentially Complete Class Results. Advisor: Jack Kiefer. Career: California Institute of technology.
James Claggett Owings
Title: Topics in Metarecursion Theory. Advisor: Gerald Sacks. Career: University of Maryland.
Robert William Robinson
Title: The Inclusion Lattice and Degrees of Unsolvability of the Recursively Enumerable Sets. Advisor: Gerald Sacks. Career: Computer Science, University of Georgia.
Joseph Geoffrey Rosenstein
Title: Recursive Functions of Arguments of Finite Type. Advisor: Anil Nerode. Career: Rutgers Univeristy.
Richard Edward Schwartz
Title: Properties of Invariant Multivariate Tests. Advisor: Jack Kiefer. Career: Defense Research and Engineering.
Linda Ruth Sons
Title: The Distribution of Values of Functions Defined by Gap Power Series. Advisor: Wolfgang Fuchs. Career: Northern Illinois University.
Steven Karl Thomason
Title: Investigations in the Structure of the Upper Semi-lattice of Hyperdegrees. Advisor: Gerald Sacks. Career: Simon Fraser University.
John Shu-Ping Wang
Title: On the Groups of the Homotopy Classes of the Stable Maps Between Z2-Moore spaces. Advisor: Peter Hilton. Career: Purdue University.
1967 (7 doctorates)
David Sheldon Moore
Title: Topics in Asymptotic Estimation Using Order Statistics. Advisor: Jack Kiefer. Career: Purdue University; President of the American Statistical Association (1998).
Virginia (Anne) Noonburg
Title: A Nonlinear System of Differential-Difference Equations. Advisor: Wolfgang Fuchs. Career: University of Hartford.
Philip Olin
Title: An Almost Everywhere Direct Product. Advisor: Anil Nerode. Career: York University.
Morris Orzech
Title: Derived Functors, a Theorem of Harrison, and the Fundamental Group. Advisor: Stephen Chase. Career: Queen’s University.
Margaret Ann Piech
Title: A Fundamental Solution of the Parabolic Equation on Hilbert Space. Advisor: Leonard Gross. Career: University of Buffalo.
Robert Soare
Title: Recursion Theory on Dedekind Cuts, Advisor: Anil Nerode. Career: University of Chicago. Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki in 1978.
Yei-Chiang Wu
Title: Some Contributions to the Study of Spectral Sequences. Advisor: Peter Hilton. Career: Oakland University, Michigan.
1968 (14 doctorates)
Frank David Anger
Title: Algebraic K-Theory for Projective Modules with Quadratic Form. Advisor: Stephen Chase. Career: University of Puerto Rico; NSF.
Corwin Lee Atwood
Title: Optimal and Efficient Design of Experiments. Advisor: Jack Kiefer. Career: University of California Davis; Statwood Consulting.
Barry Belkin
Title: Some Results in The Theory of Recurrent Random Walk. Advisor: Harry Kesten. Career: Wagner Math Finance.
Luc Demers
Title: Homology Theories and Duality of Functors. Advisor: Peter Hilton. Career: University of Ottawa.
Paul Christian Eklof
Title: Resolutions of Singularities in Prime Characteristic for Almost All Primes. Advisor: James Ax. Career: University of California, Irvine.
Sidnie Dresher Feit
Title: k-mersions of Manifolds. Advisor: Israel A. Berstein. Career: Yale University.
Gerald Seymour Garfinkel
Title: Amitsur Cohomology and an Exact Sequence Involving Pic and the Brauer Group. Advisor: Alex F.T.W. Rosenberg. Career: Oakland University; New Mexico State University; DefTec Corporation.
Martin Mayr Guterman
Title: On ABA-Groups of Finite Order. Advisor: Alex F.T.W. Rosenberg and Daniel Gorenstein. Career: Tufts University.
Chin-Shui Hsu
Title: Cohomology of Pro-finite Groups with Continuous Coefficients. Advisor: Alex F.T.W. Rosenberg. Career: University of Iowa.
Manuel Lerman
Title: Recursive Functions Modulo Co-maximal Sets. Advisor: Anil Nerode. Career: University of Connecticut.
Kalyan Kumar Mukherjea
Title: Fredholm Manifolds and Cohomology. Advisor: James Eells. Career: University of California Los Angeles, Indian Statistical Institutes in Delhi and Calcutta; Composer, Sarod player, Hindustani classical music.
Jacob Manuel Plotkin
Title: Generic Embeddings. Advisor: Anil Nerode. Career: Michigan State University.
Arthur T. Jr. Ryan
Title: On Age-Dependent Branching Processes. Advisor: Harry Kesten. Career: Developer of the Statistical package Minitab.
Barbara Falkenbach Ryan
Title: Omega-Cohesive Sets. Advisor: Anil Nerode. Career: Minitab.
1969 (7 doctorates)
David Earl Dobbs
Title: Cech Cohomology and a Dimension Theory for Commutative Rings. Advisor: Alex F.T.W. Rosenberg. Career: The University of Tennessee.
Lawrence Albert Harris
Title: Schwarz's Lemma and the Maximum Principle in Infinite Dimensional Spaces. Advisor: Clifford Earle. Career: University of Kentucky.
Richard Andrew Holley
Title: The Motion of a Heavy Particle in an Infinite One-Dimensional Diffusions. Advisor: Frank Spitzer. Career: University of Colorado, Boulder.
Robert Gerard Jeroslow
Title: Uses of Self-Reference in Arithmetic. Advisor: Anil Nerode. Career: Carnegie Melon University; Georgia Institute of Technology.
Nishan Kay Krikorian
Title: Manifolds of Maps. Advisor: James Eells. Career: Northeastern University.
Howard Allen Levine
Title: Convexity and Differential Inequalities in Hilbert Space. Advisor: Larry Payne. Career: Iowa State University.
Harold Joseph Stolberg
Title: Group Cohomologies for Hopf Algebras and Other Categories. Advisor: Stephen Chase. Career: NSF.