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IN the death of Prof. John Charles Fields on August 9 the University of Toronto lost one of its most renowned members and probaby its most gifted mathematician. Prof. Fields was born on May 14 at Hamilton, Ontario, in the year 1863. When quite young he displayed unusual skill in mathematics and in his university course at Toronto his brilliancy attracted much attention. Though his doctorate was taken at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, it was to Germany that he, like many another student from the American continent in the early days, turned for stimulus to mathematical research. There it was that he found his chief inspiration for his subject. He studied at Paris for a time but it was at Göttingen and Berlin, where he came under the influence of such leaders as Wierstrass, Klein, Fuchs and Schwartz, that his imagination was fired and the foundations laid for the creative side of his life's work.
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MCLENNAN, J. Prof. J. C. Fields, F.R.S. Nature 130, 688–689 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130688a0
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