David Eugene Smith
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David Eugene Smith, Ph.D., LL.D. (1860, Cortland, N. Y. -1944) was an American mathematician and educator.
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).
He wrote a large number of publications of various types. Professor Smith was editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, contributed to other mathematical journals, published a series of textbooks, translated Professor F. Klein's Famous Problems of Geometry and Fink's History of Mathematics, 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
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