Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-2013

Department 1

Mathematics

Abstract

In 1895, there were 134 students at Gettysburg College, which was then called Pennsylvania College. Of these students, two of them went on to become president of the American Mathematical Society. In this article, we look at the lives of these two men, Arthur Coble and Luther Eisenhart, and their contributions to mathematics and higher education, as well as look at what mathematics was like at Gettysburg at the end of the nineteenth century.

DOI

10.1090/noti991

Required Publisher's Statement

First published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society in volume 60, number 5, published by the American Mathematical Society.

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