Mathematician:David Eugene Smith

Mathematician

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

Nationality

American

History

• Born: January 21, 1860 in Cortland, New York
• Died: 29 July 1944 in New York City, New York

Publications

• Translated:
  • 1897: Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry (with Wooster Woodruff Beman: from 1895: Felix Klein: Vorträge über ausgewählte Fragen der Elementargeometrie)
  • 1900: A Brief History of Mathematics (with Wooster Woodruff Beman: from 1890: Karl Fink: Geschichte der Elementarmathematik)
  • The Treviso Arithmetic
  • 1925: 1637: René Descartes: La Géométrie (with Marcia L. Latham)

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

• Wrote:
  • 1895: Plane and Solid Geometry (with Wooster Woodruff Beman)
  • 1896: History of Modern Mathematics
  • 1897: New Higher Arithmetic (with Wooster Woodruff Beman)
  • 1899: New Plane and Solid Geometry (with Wooster Woodruff Beman)
  • 1900: The Teaching of Elementary Mathematics
  • 1900: Elements of Algebra (with Wooster Woodruff Beman)
  • 1901: Geometric Exercises in Paper Folding (with Wooster Woodruff Beman)
  • 1902: Academic Algebra (with Wooster Woodruff Beman)
  • 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)
  • 1912: Introduction to The Ganita-Sara-Sangraha of Mahaviracharya by Rao Bahadur M. Rangacharya
  • 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
  • 1930: Introduction to A Short History of Mathematics by Vera Sanford