Morgan Ward

Henry Morgan Ward (August 20, 1901 – June 26, 1963) was an American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at the California Institute of Technology.

Education and career Ward was born in New York City. He studied at University of California, Berkeley, receiving his BA in 1924. He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from Caltech in 1928, He became a research fellow at Caltech, and then in 1929 a member of the faculty; he remained at Caltech until his death in 1963. Among his doctoral students was Robert P. Dilworth, who also became a Caltech professor. He also worked with the National Science Foundation on the reform of the elementary school mathematics curriculum, he wrote the textbook Modern Elementary Mathematics (Addison-Wesley, 1962).

Ward's works are collected in the Caltech library.

Personal life Ward died of a heart attack in Duarte, California.