G. B. Halsted

George Bruce Halsted (November 25, 1853 – March 16, 1922), usually cited as G. B. Halsted, was an American mathematician who explored foundations of geometry and introduced non-Euclidean geometry into the United States through his translations of works by Bolyai, Lobachevski, Saccheri, and Poincaré. He wrote an elementary geometry text, Rational Geometry, based on Hilbert's axioms, which was translated into French, German, and Japanese. Halsted produced original works in synthetic geometry, first with an elementary text in 1896, and with a text on synthetic projective geometry in 1906. Quotes The importance of the creation of the zero mark can never be exaggerated. This giving to airy nothing, not merely a local habitation and a name, a picture, a symbol but helpful power, is the characteristic of the Hindu race from whence it sprang. It is like coining the Nirvana into dynamos. No single mathematical creation has been more potent for the general on-go of intelligence and power.’ G.B. Halsted, On the Foundation and Technique of Arithmetic, p. 20, Chicago, 1912, quoted in History of Hindu Mathematics, B. Datta and A.N. Singh, 1935. External links Category:1853 births Category:1922 deaths Category:Princeton University alumni Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni Category:University of Texas at Austin faculty Category:Mathematicians from the United States