Virgil Snyder
American mathematician (1869-1950)
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| Born | 1869 Dixon, Iowa |
| Died | 1950 |
| Alma mater | Iowa State College Cornell University University of Göttingen |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Known for | President American Mathematical Society |
Virgil Snyder (1869, Dixon, Iowa – 1950) was an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.
In 1886, Snyder matriculated at Iowa State College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1889. He attended Cornell University as a graduate student from 1890 to 1892, leaving to study mathematics in Germany on an Erastus W. Brooks fellowship. In 1895, he received a doctorate from the University of Göttingen under Felix Klein. In 1895, Snyder returned to Cornell as an instructor, becoming an assistant professor in 1905 and a full professor in 1910. In 1938, he retired as professor emeritus, having supervised 39 doctoral students, 13 of whom were women.[1] Of these students, perhaps the most well known is C. L. E. Moore. Snyder served as president of the American Mathematical Society for a two-year term in 1927 and 1928.
He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1928 at Bologna, in 1932 at Zurich,[2] and in 1936 at Oslo.[3]
Snyder did research on configurations of ruled surfaces and Cremona and birational transformations.[4]
Selected works
- with Charles H. Sisam: Analytic geometry of space. New York: H. Holt & Co. 1914.[5]
References
- ^ Cornell Math – Early History
- ^ Richardson, R. G. D. (1932). "International Congress of Mathematicians, Zurich, 1932". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38: 769–774. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1932-05491-X. (See p. 772.)
- ^ Morse, Marston (1936). "The international Congress in Oslo". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42: 777–781. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1936-06421-9. (See p. 780.)
- ^ Coble, Arthur B. (1950). "Virgil Snyder, 1869–1950". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (5): 468–471. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1950-09413-0. MR 1565227.
- ^ Winger, Roy Martin (1916). "Review: Analytic Geometry of Space by Virgil Snyder and C. H. Sisam" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 22 (7): 350–354. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1916-02797-2.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Virgil Snyder", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Virgil Snyder at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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Presidents of the American Mathematical Society
- John Howard Van Amringe (1888–1890)
- Emory McClintock (1891–1894)
- George William Hill (1895–1896)
- Simon Newcomb (1897–1898)
- Robert Simpson Woodward (1899–1900)
- E. H. Moore (1901–1902)
- Thomas Fiske (1903–1904)
- William Fogg Osgood (1905–1906)
- Henry Seely White (1907–1908)
- Maxime Bôcher (1909–1910)
- Henry Burchard Fine (1911–1912)
- Edward Burr Van Vleck (1913–1914)
- Ernest William Brown (1915–1916)
- Leonard Eugene Dickson (1917–1918)
- Frank Morley (1919–1920)
- Gilbert Ames Bliss (1921–1922)
- Oswald Veblen (1923–1924)
- George David Birkhoff (1925–1926)
- Virgil Snyder (1927–1928)
- Earle Raymond Hedrick (1929–1930)
- Luther P. Eisenhart (1931–1932)
- Arthur Byron Coble (1933–1934)
- Solomon Lefschetz (1935–1936)
- Robert Lee Moore (1937–1938)
- Griffith C. Evans (1939–1940)
- Marston Morse (1941–1942)
- Marshall H. Stone (1943–1944)
- Theophil Henry Hildebrandt (1945–1946)
- Einar Hille (1947–1948)
- Joseph L. Walsh (1949–1950)
- John von Neumann (1951–1952)
- Gordon Thomas Whyburn (1953–1954)
- Raymond Louis Wilder (1955–1956)
- Richard Brauer (1957–1958)
- Edward J. McShane (1959–1960)
- Deane Montgomery (1961–1962)
- Joseph L. Doob (1963–1964)
- Abraham Adrian Albert (1965–1966)
- Charles B. Morrey Jr. (1967–1968)
- Oscar Zariski (1969–1970)
- Nathan Jacobson (1971–1972)
- Saunders Mac Lane (1973–1974)
- Lipman Bers (1975–1976)
- R. H. Bing (1977–1978)
- Peter Lax (1979–1980)
- Andrew M. Gleason (1981–1982)
- Julia Robinson (1983–1984)
- Irving Kaplansky (1985–1986)
- George Mostow (1987–1988)
- William Browder (1989–1990)
- Michael Artin (1991–1992)
- Ronald Graham (1993–1994)
- Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1995–1996)
- Arthur Jaffe (1997–1998)
- Felix Browder (1999–2000)
- Hyman Bass (2001–2002)
- David Eisenbud (2003–2004)
- James Arthur (2005–2006)
- James Glimm (2007–2008)
- George Andrews (2009–2010)
- Eric Friedlander (2011–2012)
- David Vogan (2013–2014)
- Robert Bryant (2015–2016)
- Ken Ribet (2017–2018)
- Jill Pipher (2019–2020)
- Ruth Charney (2021–2022)
- Bryna Kra (2023–2024)
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