Claiborne Latimer

Claiborne Green Latimer (1893–1960) was an American mathematician, known for the Latimer–MacDuffee theorem.^[1]

Career

Latimer earned his PhD in 1924 from the University of Chicago under Leonard Dickson with thesis Arithmetic of Generalized Quaternion Algebras.^[2] He was an assistant professor at Tulane University for 2 years,^[3] before becoming a mathematics professor at the University of Kentucky in 1927. After 20 years at the University of Kentucky, he resigned in 1947 and became a professor at Emory University.^[4] Latimer was an amateur photographer; some of his photographs are preserved in the archives of the University of Kentucky and Emory University.^[5]