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Elias Loomis (1811-89) was an
American mathematician, born in
Willington.
Conn. He graduated at
Yale College in 1830; was tutor there for three years, 1833-36; spent the next year in scientific investigation in
Paris; on his return was appointed
professor of mathematics in the
Western Reserve College,
Ohio; from 1844 to 1860 held the professorship of natural philosophy and mathematics in the
University of the City of New York, and in the latter year became professor of
natural philosophy in
Yale. Professor Loomis published (besides many papers in the
American Journal of Science and in the
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society) many textbooks on mathematics, including "Analytical Geometry and of the Differential and Integral Calculus",published in
1835.
In
1859 Alexander Wylie, assistant director of
London Missionary Press in Shanghai, in cooperation with fellow Chinese scholar
Li Shan Lan, translated Elias Loomis's book on Geometry, Differential and Integral Calculus in to Chinese; the Chinese text was subsequently translated twice by Japanese scholars into Japanese text and published in Japan. Elias Loomis thus played an important role in the transfer of analytical mathematical knowledge to the Far East.
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