ProofWiki:Mathematicians/David Eugene Smith

American mathematician and educator best known for his translations of classics.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 1860
• Died: 1944

Books and Papers

• Translated:
  • Famous Problems of Geometry by Felix Klein
  • A Brief History of Mathematics by Karl Fink (with Wooster Woodruff Beman)
  • The Treviso Arithmetic
  • 1925: La Géométrie by René Descartes (1637) (with Marcia L. Latham)

• Edited:
  • 1915: A Budget of Paradoxes by Augustus De Morgan

• Wrote:
  • 1896: History of Modern Mathematics
  • 1900: The Teaching of Elementary Mathematics
  • 1908: Rara Arithmetica
  • 1909: The Teaching of Arithmetic (revised edition: 1913)
  • 1911: The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
  • 1912: The Teaching of Geometry
  • 1912: A Bibliography on the Teaching of Mathematics (with Charles Goldziher)
  • 1914: A History of Japanese Mathematics (with Yoshio Mikami)
  • 1919: Number Stories of Long Ago
  • 1923: Our Debt to Greece and Rome: Mathematics
  • 1923: History of Mathematics: Volume 1
  • 1925: History of Mathematics: Volume 2