Chandler Davis
Horace Chandler Davis (August 12, 1926 – September 24, 2022) was an American-Canadian mathematician, writer, educator, and left-wing political activist. The socialist magazine Jacobin described Davis as "an internationally esteemed mathematician, a minor science fiction writer of note, and among the most celebrated political prisoners in the United States during the years of the high Cold War."
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Davis in 2011 | |
| Born | Horace Chandler Davis August 12, 1926 Ithaca, New York, US |
| Died | September 24, 2022 (aged 96) Toronto, Canada |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Spouse | Natalie Zemon Davis |
| Children | 3 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
| Thesis | Lattices and Modal Operators (1950) |
| Doctoral advisor | Garrett Birkhoff |
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