Robert Stanton Avery

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Robert Stanton Avery
Born 1808
Died 1894
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard Divinity School
Scientific career
Fields
  • Mathematics
Institutions Tidal Division
United States Coast Survey

Robert Stanton Avery (1808–1894) was an American mathematician.

Biography

Stanton Avery was born in 1808. In 1846, he graduated from Harvard Divinity School, and soon after turned his attention to mathematics and physical sciences. He taught math in schools in the South, until he was drafted into the United States Coast Survey, during which he became the Chief of the Tidal Division. In 1885, he was retired from USCS, and devoted his last years to the development of the techniques of phonetic spelling. He died in 1894. [1]

Harvard Divinity School seminary

Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. As of June 2015, the school's mission is to train and educate its students either in the academic study of religion, or for the practice of a religious ministry or other public service vocation. It also caters to students from other Harvard schools that are interested in the former field. Harvard Divinity School is among a small group of university-based, non-denominational divinity schools in the United States (the others include the University of Chicago Divinity School, Yale Divinity School, Vanderbilt University Divinity School,Wake Forest University School of Divinity and Claremont Graduate University-Department of Religion.

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