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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.
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.
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
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 ...
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).
It includes American mathematicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. ... Elbert Frank Cox; Melvin Currie; D ...
NAM hosts five lecture series that honor African American mathematicians. [3] Two of these take place at the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings of the American Mathematical Society. The Cox-Talbot Lecture, named after Elbert Frank Cox and Walter Richard Talbot, is an hour-long lecture that takes place during the NAM Banquet. Invited speakers are ...
Frank Cox may refer to: ... Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), American mathematician; Francis Cox (disambiguation) Franklin Cox (born 1961), ...