Morton L. Curtis, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMorton L. Curtis
American mathematician
Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1921
Date of Death: 04-Feb-1989
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Morton L. Curtis
- Morton Landers Curtis (November 11, 1921 – February 4, 1989) was an American mathematician, an expert on group theory and the W.
- L.
- Moody, Jr.
- Professor of Mathematics at Rice University.Born in Texas, Curtis earned a bachelor's degree in 1948 from Texas A&I University, and received his Ph.D.
- in 1951 from the University of Michigan under the supervision of Raymond Louis Wilder.
- Subsequently, he taught mathematics at Florida State University before moving to Rice.
- At Rice, he was the Ph.D.
- advisor of well-known mathematician John Morgan.Curtis is, with James J.
- Andrews, the namesake of the Andrews–Curtis conjecture concerning Nielsen transformations of balanced group presentations.
- Andrews and Curtis formulated the conjecture in a 1965 paper; it remains open.
- Together with Gustav A.
- Hedlund and Roger Lyndon, he proved the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem characterizing cellular automata as being defined by continuous equivariant functions on a shift space.Curtis was the author of two books, Matrix Groups (Springer-Verlag, 1979), and Abstract Linear Algebra (Springer-Verlag, 1990).
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