Talk:G. B. Halsted

Repetitions

There are many in the main article.

Dismissal from Texas?

The page for Tenure mentions the 'notorious case' of his dismissal from Texas after 19 years of service, but I don't see any mention here. Does anyone know what this refers to? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.75.80.96 (talk) 17:44, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

From Review of R. L. Moore: Mathematician and Teacher. By John Parker. Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 2005, by David E. Zitarelli, American Mathematical Monthly 113:2, 2006, pp. 187-192 [1] on p. 190:

"... Halsted’s relentless promotion of Moore for a faculty position at Texas, fueled by RLM’s novel proof of a redundancy in the geometry of Hilbert, became the last straw in Halsted’s strained relationship with the regents and led to his firing."

A bio page at UT Austin only says that Halsted "resigned" [2]. Jmath666 (talk) 20:04, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

The book has the info, added in this edit to the article. Jmath666 (talk) 00:30, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Mustache

The mustache geometry story is new to me. Is it in one of the referenced sources? Neomon (talk) 18:27, 13 August 2020 (UTC)