Frank Douglas Quigley
1928-1996
Frank Douglas Quigley was born on June 5, 1928
in Maysville, Kentucky. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard
University in Mathematics in 1949 and his Ph.D. from
University of Chicago in Mathematics in 1953, under the direction of Andre
Weil, one of the most famous mathematiicians of our
time. After teaching at Yale University from 1953t-1959, he then joined
the faculty of Tulane University in 1959-64 as Associate Professor and was
promoted to Professor in 1964. He served as Chairman of the
Department of Mathematics from 1972-73. He was a member of the American
Mathematical Association, the Mathematical Association of America and Sigma
Xi. He authored a book entitled, A Manual of Axiomatic Set Theory, 1971. He was awarded vaious
grants from the National Science Foundation and
was renown for his broad mathematical expertise and
for his erudition which extended well beyond mathematics. His major
research areas of interest were in algebraic field theory, uniform algebra and
several complex variables.
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