David Eugene Smith

David Eugene Smith

David Eugene Smith, Ph.D., LL.D. (January 21, 1860 in Cortland, New York – July 29, 1944 in New York) was an American mathematician, educator, and editor.

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Education and career

David Eugene Smith attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1881 (Ph. D., 1887; LL.D., 1905). He studied to be a lawyer concentrating in arts and humanities, but accepted an instructorship in mathematics at the Cortland Normal School in 1884.[1] He also knew Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. [2] He became a professor at the Michigan State Normal College in 1891, the principal at the State Normal School in Brockport, New York (1898), and a professor of mathematics at Teachers College, Columbia University (1901).

Smith became president of the Mathematical Association of America in 1920.[3] He also wrote a large number of publications of various types. He was editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society; contributed to other mathematical journals; published a series of textbooks; translated Klein's Famous Problems of Geometry, Fink's History of Mathematics, and the Treviso Arithmetic. He edited Augustus De Morgan's Budget of Paradoxes (1915) and wrote many books on Mathematics which are listed below.

Works

  • History of Modern Mathematics (1896; as a separate work, 1910) Cornell Historical Math Monographs
  • The Teaching of Elementary Mathematics (1900) Cornell Historical Math Monographs
  • The Teaching of Arithmetic (1909; revised edition, 1913)
  • The Teaching of Geometry (1912)
  • Rara Arithmetica (1908)
  • The Hindu-Arabic Numerals (1911)
  • A Bibliography on the Teaching of Mathematics (1912), with C. Goldziher
  • A History of Japanese Mathematics (1914), with Y. Mikami
  • Number Stories of Long Ago (1919)
  • Mathematics In series Our Debt to Greece and Rome. (1923) Michigan Historical Math Collection
  • History of Mathematics: 2 Volumes (1923/5). Reprinted Dover, 1958.

References

  1. ^ Template:Http://www.maa.org/history/presidents/smith.html
  2. ^ http://www.maa.org/history/presidents/smith.html
  3. ^ Template:Http://www.maa.org/history/presidents/smith.html

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Charles McLean
Principal of the Brockport State Normal School
1898 – 1901
Succeeded by
Charles T. McFarlane

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