1. Artemas Martin was a self-educated American mathematician.
10 Facts About Artemas Martin
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Artemas Martin was home-schooled until the age of 14, when he began studying mathematics at the local school, later moving to the Franklin Select School a few miles away and then to the Franklin Academy, finishing his formal education at age approximately 20.
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Artemas Martin worked as a farmer, oil driller, and schoolteacher.
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Artemas Martin was a prolific contributor of problems and solutions to mathematical puzzle columns in popular magazines beginning at the age of 18 in the Pittsburgh Almanac and the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post.
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From 1875 to 1876 Artemas Martin moved to the Normal Monthly, where he published 16 articles on diophantine analysis.
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Artemas Martin subsequently became editor of the Mathematical Visitor in 1877 and of the Mathematical Magazine in 1882.
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Artemas Martin was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1912 in Cambridge UK.
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Artemas Martin maintained an extensive mathematical library, now in the collections of American University.
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Artemas Martin was elected to the London Mathematical Society in 1878, the Societe Mathematique de France in 1884, the Edinburgh Mathematical Society in 1885, the Philosophical Society of Washington in 1886, the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1890, and the New York Mathematical Society in 1891.
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Artemas Martin was a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Circolo Matematico di Palermo, the Mathematical Association of England, and the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung.