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Phillip Franklin was one of the most famous American-born mathematicians of the first half of the 20th century. He was one of the first American mathematicians with a truly modern training; getting his doctorate at Princeton University under Oswald Velben in 1922 and beginning his career by spreading knowledge of the frontiers of mathematics to the other top programs. Marshall Stone famously commented that the entire Harvard University department-students and faculty alike- learned the elements of topology from the seminar Franklin taught when he arrived there as a new PhD. He then moved on to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where we spent the bulk of his career, both teaching and doing research. Franklin became well known as an analyst, but the truth is he published in a number of fields, including geometry, number theory, graph theory and topology. He's best known for authoring some of the most well-received and influential textbooks of his generation. Among his most famous texts were Differential equations for electrical engineers (1933), the exhaustive undergraduate analysis text A Treatise on advanced calculus (1940), the standard introductory calculus text, Differential and integral calculus (1953) and the honors calculus text Compact calculus (1963). About Publisher/ Editor: Karo Maestro and The Mathemagician are both nome-de-plume of a former graduate student in mathematics. Some things this enigma can reveal: He was a distinguished undergraduate student as a double major in mathematics and biochemistry whose poor health & personal tragedies prevented completing graduate studies. Unbowed and undaunted, he plans to return to ultimately obtain a PhD in pure mathematics before dying. Partially to that end, he is building Blue Collar Scholar, a publishing company committed to making high quality sources of mathematics-both original works and reprints-available widely and inexpensively to students of all backgrounds. He has 3 bachelors' degrees, in philosophy, physical chemistry and mathematics as well as minors in biochemistry and psychology. He is also a past reviewer of textbooks for the Mathematical Association Of America.He's painfully blunt, opinionated and has a comment on just about everything in creation. He's painfully blunt, opinionated and has a comment on just about everything in creation-from math textbooks to progressive politics to how to make a perfect cup of organic green tea.

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