Dunham Jackson

Dunham Jackson was an American mathematician and university teacher born in Bridgewater in 1888. He worked at Harvard University and the University of Minnesota. His academic training included studies at Harvard University and the University of Göttingen. He was a student of Maxime Bôcher and received his doctorate under Edmund Landau.

Jackson’s professional affiliations included membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Mathematical Society, and the Mathematical Association of America. He received the Chauvenet Prize for his contributions to the field. His notable work includes Jackson's inequality, and he focused on mathematics, approximation theory, orthogonal polynomials, and polynomials. He also supervised doctoral student Elizabeth Carlson. He died in Hennepin County in 1946.