Nathan Joseph Harry Divinsky

Notes

• Location info: Winnipeg (birth), Vancouver (death)
• Canadian mathematician, university professor, chess master, chess writer, and chess official.
• Canadian Chess Hall of Fame inductee, 2001.
• Bachelor of Science from the University of Manitoba in 1946. He received a Master of Science in 1947, and a PhD in Mathematics under A. A. Albert in 1950 from the University of Chicago.
• Worked at the Mathematics Department of the University of Manitoba for most of the '50s. Divinsky then moved to Vancouver where he served as a mathematics professor, and also as an assistant dean of science, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he spent the remainder of his professional career.

Bibliography

Divinsky has written several books. Below is a selected biography.

• Rings and Radicals, University of Toronto Press, 1965.
• Linear Algebra, 1975.
• Around the Chess World in 80 Years.
• The Batsford Encyclopedia of Chess, 1990.
• Life Maps of the Great Chess Masters, 1994, Seattle, International Chess Enterprises.
• Warriors of the Mind: A Quest for the Supreme Genius of the Chess Board (with Raymond Keene), 1989, 2002.

Sources

• Wikipedia