Frank Lauren Hitchcock (6 de março de 1875 – 31 de maio de 1957) foi um matemático e físico estadunidense, conhecido por sua formulação do problema de transporte.

Formação e carreira

Frank entrou na Universidade Harvard, onde obteve o bacharelado em 1896. Começou então a lecionar, inicialmente em Paris e no Kenyon College em Gambier (Ohio). De 1904 a 1906 lecionou química na Universidade Estatal de Dakota do Norte em Fargo (Dakota do Norte).

Hitchcock retornou a Massachusetts e começou a lecionar no Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts com estudos de pós-graduação em Harvard. Em 1910 obteve um Ph.D. com a tese Vector Functions of a Point.^[1]

Obras

• 1910: Vector Functions of a Point.
• 1915: A Classification of Quadratic Vectors Functions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1(3):177 to 183.
• 1917: On the simultaneous formulation of two linear vector functions, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section A 34: 1 to 10.
• 1920: A study of the vector product Vφαθβ, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section A 35: 30 to 7.
• 1920: A Thermodynamic Study of Electrolytic Solutions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 6(4):186 to 197.
• 1920: An Identical Relation Connecting Seven Vectors.
• 1921: The Axes of a Quadratic Vector, Proceedings AAAS 56(9):331 to 351.
• 1921: with Norbert Wiener, A New Vector Method in Integral Equations, MIT Journal of Mathematics and Physics volume 1.
• 1923: On Double Polyadics, with Application to the Linear Matrix Equation, Proceedings AAAS 58(10): 355 to 395.
• 1923: Identities Satisfied by Algebraic Point Functions in N-space, Proceedings AAAS 58(11): 399 to 421.
• 1923: with Clark S. Robinson, Differential Equations in Applied Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, now from Archive.org.
• 1923: A Method for the Numerical Solution of Integral Equations.
• 1924: The Coincident Points of Two Algebraic Transformations.
• 1922: A Solution of the Linear Matrix Equation by Double Multiplication.

Referências

• Dr. Frank L. Hitchcock, Mathematician, Professor Emeritus at M.I.T., Dies at 82, The New York Times, June 1, 1957, p. 17.
• Frank L. Hitchcock (1941) "The distribution of a product from several sources to numerous localities", MIT Journal of Mathematics and Physics 20:224–230 .

Ligações externas

• D. R. Fulkerson (1956) Hitchcock Transportation Problem, RAND corporation.
• Hitchcock's family tree
• Obituary