William Caspar Graustein

William Caspar Graustein
Left to right, upper: Graustein, Smith, lower: Rellich, Mary Graustein, at the ICM, Zürich 1932.
Born (1888-11-15)15 November 1888
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died 22 January 1941(1941-01-22) (aged 52)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard University
Spouse(s) Mary Florence (nee Curtis)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Harvard University
Doctoral advisor Eduard Study

William Caspar Graustein (15 November 1888 – 22 January 1941) was an American mathematician. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1910[1] and later became an instructor at Harvard University. In 1921, he married Mary Florence Curtis (1884—1972), one of the first American women who got a mathematics Ph.D., viz. 1917 from Radcliffe College.[2]

Bibliography

Some of his books and papers are:[3]

  • The scientific work of Joseph Lipka
  • Applicability with preservation of both curvatures
  • Extensions of the four-vertex theorem
  • Introduction to higher geometry
  • Differential Geometry" MacMillan Company 1935. Republished Dover 1966 2006.

References

  1. ↑ Coolidge, J. L. (2017-01-27). "William Caspar Graustein—In memoriam". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 47 (5): 343–349. ISSN 0002-9904.
  2. ↑ Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2008). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics — The Pre-1940 PhD's. History of Mathematics. 34 (1st ed.). American Mathematical Society, The London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5. Mary Florence (Curtis) Graustein biography on p.213-215 of the Supplementary Material at AMS
  3. ↑ "Results for 'au:Graustein, William C.' [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
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