Burton Wadsworth Jones, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American mathematician
Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1902
Place of Birth: Redwood Falls, Minnesota, United States
Date of Death: 08-Dec-1983
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Burton Wadsworth Jones
- Burton Wadsworth Jones (1 October 1902 – 8 December 1983) was an American mathematician, known for his work on quadratic forms. B.
- W.
- Jones was born in Redwood Falls, Minnesota.
- He received his BA in 1923 from Grinell College, his MA in 1924 from Harvard University, and his PhD in mathematics in 1928 from the University of Chicago under L.
- E.
- Dickson.
- Jones was a mathematics professor at Cornell University from 1930 to 1948.
- At Cornell, he supervised the doctoral dissertations of four mathematicians: Irma Moses Reiner (1946), Irving Reiner (1947), Mary Dolciani (1947), and William J.
- LeVeque (1948).
- Jones was a member of the University of Colorado Boulder faculty from 1948 to his retirement in 1971; he was chair of the mathematics department from 1949 to 1963. Jones was honored by being selected to write the Carus Monograph Number 10, entitled The Arithmetic Theory of Quadratic Forms.
- He received the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Distinguished Service Award in 1971.
- In 1991 the Rocky Mountain section of the MAA honored the memory of B.
- W.
- Jones by naming their yearly Distinguished Teaching Award after him.
- He died in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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