HAROLD T. DAVIS (1892–1974)
Director: February – September 1937
Advisor: September 1937 – 1939
A.B., 1915 and Ll.D., 1949, Colorado College; A.M., Harvard University, 1919; Ph.D.,
University of Wisconsin, 1926
Harold T. Davis has been associated with the Cowles Commission since its beginning,
spending several months each year in the Commission's laboratory while it was at Colorado
Springs and serving as a consultant throughout the balance of the time. From February to
August 1937, he was acting research director. He has been professor of mathematics at
Indiana University, 1923–37, and at Northwestern University since 1937, becoming full
professor and chairman of the Department of Mathematics in 1942. Davis is a Fellow of the
Econometric Society. He is an associate editor of Econometrica, and has served in
the same capacity for Isis and the Bulletin of the American Mathematical
Society. During the past year he continued studies in the field of political
statistics and has submitted several books for publication. Numerous papers, abstracts,
and reviews have been published in American Mathematical Monthly, Annals of
Mathematical Statistics, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Mathematical
Tables and Other Aids to Computation, National Mathematics Magazine, School Science and
Mathematics, and Science. He is the author of the following books: The Volterra
Integral Equation, 1930; Philosophy and Modern Science, 1931; Tables of the
Higher Mathematical Functions, 1933, Vol. II, 1935; Elements of Statistics (with
F.C. Nelson), 1935; General Mathematics, 1935; Theory of Linear Operators, 1936;
College Algebra, 1940; Theory of Econometrics, 1941; Mathematical
Monograph, 1941; The Analysis of Economic Time Series, 1941; Political
Statistics, 1948; Essays in History of Mathematics, 1948; Differential
Equations and Mathematical Physics, 1949; Quantitative Aspects of the Action of
Carcinogenic Substances, 1951; and Quantitative Aspects of the Carcinogenic
Radiations, 1952.
[Abstracted from A Twenty Year Research
Report 1932–1952]
Cowles Foundation Monograph 6 (1941) |
