E.H. Moore

E. H. Moore
Eliakim Hastings Moore
Born	(1862-01-26)January 26, 1862 Marietta, Ohio, U.S.
Died	December 30, 1932(1932-12-30) (aged 70) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Yale University (Ph.D., 1885)
Known for	"General analysis", Moore–Smith convergence of nets in topology, Moore family and hull operator, Moore–Penrose inverse, Galois representation of finite fields, Axiomatic systems
Awards	AMS Colloquium Lecturer, 1906
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Chicago 1892–31 Yale University 1887–89 Northwestern University 1886–87, 1889–92
Thesis	Extensions of Certain Theorems of Clifford and Cayley in the Geometry of n Dimensions (1885)
Doctoral advisor	Hubert Anson Newton
Doctoral students	George Birkhoff Leonard Dickson T. H. Hildebrandt D. N. Lehmer Robert Lee Moore Oswald Veblen Anna Wheeler

Eliakim Hastings Moore (/ɪˈlaɪəkɪm mɔər/; January 26, 1862 – December 30, 1932), usually cited as E. H. Moore or E. Hastings Moore, was an American mathematician.

Moore, the son of a Methodist minister and grandson of US Congressman Eliakim H. Moore, discovered mathematics through a summer job at the Cincinnati Observatory while in high school. He learned mathematics at Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones and obtained a B.A. in 1883 and the Ph.D. in 1885 with a thesis, supervised by Hubert Anson Newton, on some work of William Kingdon Clifford and Arthur Cayley. Newton encouraged Moore to study in Germany, and thus he spent an academic year at the University of Berlin, attending lectures by Kronecker and Weierstrass.

On his return to the United States, Moore taught at Yale and at Northwestern University. When the University of Chicago opened its doors in 1892, Moore was the first head of its mathematics department, a position he retained until his death in 1931. His first two colleagues were Bolza and Maschke. The resulting department was the second research-oriented mathematics department in American history, after Johns Hopkins University.