Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
1999: The mathematics departments of the 25 highest-ranked universities in the US had more than 900 faculty members, of whom 4 were African-American. [7] 2003: Clarence F. Stephens is the first African-American to be honored with the Mathematical Association of America's (MAA) most prestigious award, for Distinguished Service to Mathematics. [28]
Mathematics portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American mathematicians . It includes American mathematicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
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).
William Schieffelin Claytor (1908–1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania [1] [2] Paul Cohen (1934–2007) Don Coppersmith (b. 1950), cryptographer, first four-time Putnam Fellow in history; Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Cornell University
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, the first African American full professor (with tenure) at the University of California, Berkeley, [3] [5] [6] and the seventh African American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. [7] In 2012, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Blackwell the National Medal ...
He has also been active in the African-American community particularly through his mentoring, recruiting, and lecturing. [31] [32] He has received several community service awards for his social outreach. [33] [34] Petters is the first tenured African-American professor in mathematics at Duke University. [33]
Being the first black woman to receive a mathematics doctorate from the University of Texas Lillian Katie Bradley (October 15, 1921 [ 1 ] – February 11, 1995 [ 2 ] ) was an American mathematician and mathematics educator who in 1960 became the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas at Austin .