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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 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 ...
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.
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 [3] Dr. Juan E. Gilbert: Kappa Delta
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).
In 1945, Jones attended Howard University with two scholarships, one from the university and one from the Pepsi-Cola Corporation. Jones was fortunate to be mentored by Elbert Frank Cox, the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics, as well as David Blackwell, another notable African-American mathematician.
African-American women mathematicians (59 P) S. African-American statisticians (14 P) W. West Area Computers (6 P) ... Elbert Frank Cox; Melvin Currie; D. Geraldine ...