Virgil Snyder
Virgil Snyder (born November 9, 1869 in Dixon (Iowa) , † January 4, 1950 in Ithaca (New York) ) was an American mathematician.
On his father's side, Snyder came from originally German immigrants (with the name Schneider), his father was a farmer in Iowa. From 1886 to 1889 he studied at Iowa State College and then at Cornell University . In 1892 he went to Felix Klein in Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1894 ( on the linear complexes of Lie's spherical geometry ). On his return in 1895 he became an instructor at Cornell University, where he received a full professorship in 1910 and retired in 1938.
In 1942/43 he was visiting professor at Brown University and in 1943/44 at Rollins College in Winter Park in Florida.
He dealt with algebraic geometry (ruled surfaces, Cremona transformations, etc.).
From 1927 to 1928 he was president of the American Mathematical Society and published its bulletin from 1903 to 1921. In 1919 he became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1922 he received an honorary doctorate in Padua. Snyder was a member of the Circolo Matematico di Palermo and the German Mathematicians Association . He was a US delegate at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Bologna in 1928 and in Oslo in 1936.
He supervised 38 PhD students including MIT professor CLE Moore and Fay Farnum .
Fonts
- with James McMahon: Treatise on Differential Calculus , 1898
- with John I. Hutchinson: Differential and Integral Calculus , 1902
- with John H. Tanner: Plane and Solid Geometry , 1911
- with John I. Hutchinson: Elementary Textbook on the Calculus , 1912
- with Charles H. Sisam: Analytic Geometry of Space , 1914
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Virgil Snyder. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Virgil Snyder in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Snyder, Virgil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dixon, Iowa |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 1950 |
| Place of death | Ithaca (New York) |