History of Pittston, (Luzerne County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Thomas Craig Biography

Thomas Craig, educator, was born at Pittston, Pa., Dec. 20, 1853; son of Alexander and Mary (Hall) Craig, natives of Ayrshire, Scotland. He attended West Pittston seminary, 1867-71, and was graduated from Lafayette college, C.E., in 1875. He was a fellow of Johns Hopkins university, 1876-79; instructor, associate, and associate professor of mathematics, 1879-92; professor of pure mathematics from 1892, a member of the board of university studies, editor of the American Journal of Mathematics, and director of the mathematical society, in Johns Hopkins university. From 1879 to 1881 he was connected with the U.S. coast survey, and in 1882 published Mathematical Theory of Projections for the use of the coast and geodetic survey, which was afterward regarded by the government as a standard textbook on the subject. He is also the author of Motions of Fluids (1882), and Linear Differential Equations (1889). He was elected a member of the London mathematical society, the Soci?t? math?matique de France. Johns Hopkins conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. in 1878. He died in Baltimore, Md., May 8, 1900.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor