David Eugene Smith

Smith, David Eugene

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David Eugene Smith was an American mathematician, educator, and editor. He attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1881 (Ph. D., 1887; LL.D., 1905). He studied to be a lawyer concentrating in arts and humanities, but accepted an instructorship in mathematics at the Cortland Normal School in 1884, where he attended as a young man. He became a professor at the Michigan State Normal College in 1891 (later Eastern Michigan University), the principal at the State Normal School in Brockport, New York (1898), and a professor of mathematics at Teachers College, Columbia University (1901) where he remained until his retirement in 1926. Smith became president of the Mathematical Association of America in 1920 and served as the president of the History of Science Society in 1927. He also wrote a large number of publications of various types. He was editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society; contributed to other mathematical journals; published a series of textbooks; translated Felix Klein's Famous Problems of Geometry, Fink's History of Mathematics, and the Treviso Arithmetic. He edited Augustus De Morgan's A Budget of Paradoxes (1915) and wrote many books on Mathematics.

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The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
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HISTORY OF MODERN MATHEMATICS
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Number Stories of Long Ago
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Junior High School Mathematics; Volume 3
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A Budget of Paradoxes; Volume 2
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The Teaching of Geometry
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Mathematics in the Lower and Middle Commercial and Industrial Schools of Various Countries Represented in the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics, Issues 34-42
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Mathematics for Nurses
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A History Of Mathematics In America Before 1900
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A History of Mathematics in America Before 1900
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Wentworth's Plane Geometry
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Work and Play With Numbers
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Solid Geometry
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A Brief History of Mathematics
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A Budget of Paradoxes; Volume 1
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Rara Arithmetica
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History Of Modern Mathematics
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Elements of Algebra
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A History of Japanese Mathematics
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Number Stories of Long Ago
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Analytic Geometry
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New Plane And Solid Geometry
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Plane And Solid Geometry
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Rara arithmetica
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