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Elbert Frank Cox (5 December 1895 – 28 November 1969) was an American mathematician. He was the first African American to receive a PhD in mathematics, which he earned at Cornell University in 1925.
Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Cornell University Laura Demarco (?), researcher in dynamical systems and complex analysis Joseph J. Dennis (1905–1977), Clark College
1925: Elbert Frank Cox is the first African-American awarded a doctoral degree in mathematics, from Cornell University. [ 6 ] 1929: Dudley Weldon Woodard is the first African-American mathematician known to publish in a mathematics journal, [ 7 ] with the article "On two-dimensional analysis situs with special reference to the Jordan curve ...
Name Original chapter Notability References Elbert Frank Cox: Alpha: First African American to earn a Ph.D. in pure mathematics, a field concerned with mathematical theory rather than with practice or application
William Lloyd Garrison Williams (3 October 1888 - 31 January 1976) was an American-Canadian Quaker and mathematician, known for the founding of the Canadian Mathematical Society and overseeing Elbert Frank Cox's doctorate in mathematics.
Frank Cox (baseball) (1857–1928), played in 1884 Detroit Wolverines season; Frank Cox (businessman) (fl. c. 1900), leader of several coal companies; Frank Cox (director) (1940–2021), British film director; Frank Cox (musician), played with Heart and the Lovemongers; Frank Cox (judge) (1862–1940), justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of ...
Dudley Weldon Woodard (October 3, 1881 – July 1, 1965) was a Galveston-born American mathematician and professor, and the second African-American to earn a PhD in mathematics; the first was Woodard's mentor Elbert Frank Cox, who earned a PhD from Cornell in 1925).
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