Walter Buckingham Carver
Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University 1904
About Walter Buckingham Carver
Lived 1879 – 1961 (aged 82). Walter Buckingham Carver was an American mathematician and university teacher.
Walter Buckingham Carver (January 11, 1879, Town Hill, Fulton County, Pennsylvania – July 4, 1961, Ithaca, New York) was an American mathematician, noteworthy as the president of the Mathematical Association of America for a two-year term in 1939 and 1940.
Biography Carver was an undergraduate at Gettysburg College and then at Dickinson College, where he graduated in 1899. For two academic years from 1904 to 1906, Carver was a professor at Ursinus College. He chaired Cornell's mathematics department from 1929 to 1932 and again from 1938 to 1940.
Carver was a founding member in 1915 of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the MAA's 18th president. As president, he was the successor to Aubrey J. Kempner and the predecessor of Raymond Woodard Brink. Carver was from 1943 to 1948 the MAA's secretary-treasurer, as the successor to Williams D. Cairns. His contributions of problems and solutions to the American Mathematical Monthly spanned about 58 years, longer than any other contributor in his lifetime.
In 1929 Dickinson College awarded him an honorary doctorate.
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Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University 1904
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Walter Buckingham Carver was born on 11 January 1879 in Town Hill.
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Walter Buckingham Carver died on 4 July 1961.
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Walter Buckingham Carver was a mathematician and university teacher.
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