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Coble and Eisenhart: Two Gettysburgians Who Led Mathematics (2013)

Glass, Darren B. (Author)

Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Volume: 60, no. 5
Issue: 5
Pages: 558-566

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Societies; institutions; academies Mathematics 20th century, early United States Eisenhart, Luther Pfahler Coble, Arthur Byron American Mathematical Society

As of 2012, sixty-one people had held the office of president of the American Mathematical Society. Of these ftynine men and two women, ten received undergraduate degrees from Harvard. Another ve received their undergraduate degrees from Columbia University. Five schools have had three alumni apiece go on to serve as AMS president, and none of the schools on this list would surprise anyone---Princeton, Yale, Cambridge, Texas, and Chicago have all been centers of mathematics at various times. Three more schools have had two alumni each become AMS president: MIT, Wesleyan University, and Gettysburg College. Yes, there have been more Gettysburg College alumni to serve as AMS president than many schools whose math programs are far more renowned. The story is even more interesting when one notes that the two Gettysburg College alumni served as back-to-back presidents of the AMS, with Luther Pfahler Eisenhart serving in 1931--1932 and Arthur Byron Coble serving in 1933--1934. Furthermore, they graduated from Gettysburg, then known as Pennsylvania College, a year apart, with Eisenhart one of the sixteen members of the class of 1896 and Coble one of the twenty-six members of the class of 1897. In other words, of the 134 students who were attending Gettysburg College in 1895, two of them would receive Ph.D.'s in mathematics from Johns Hopkins and go on to be the president of one of the most important academic societies in the world. In this article, we take a closer look at this coincidence.

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