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Smith, David Eugene

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David Eugene Smith, Ph.D., LL.D. (1860–1944) was an American mathematician and educator.

Born in Cortland, New York, he attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1881 (Ph. D., 1887; LL.D., 1905). He practiced law for some years at his place of birth, then became professor in the Michigan State Normal College in 1891, the principal of the State Normal School at Brockport, N. Y. (1898), and professor of mathematics in Teachers College, Columbia University (1901).

Smith 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 Klein's Famous Problems of Geometry, Fink's History of Mathematics, and the Treviso Arithmetic; edited Augustus De Morgan's Budget of Paradoxes (1915); and wrote:

  • History of Modern Mathematics (1896; as a separate work, 1910)
  • The Teaching of Elementary Mathematics (1900)
  • The Teaching of Arithmetic (1909; revised edition, 1913)
  • The Teaching of Geometry (1912)
  • Rara Arithmetica (1908)
  • A Bibliography on the Teaching of Mathematics (1912), with C. Goldziher
  • A History of Japanese Mathematics (1914), with Y. Mikami
  • Number Stories of Long Ago (1919)

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Books

History of Modern Mathematics Mathematical Monographs No. 1

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