David Eugene Smith

January 21, 1860 – July 29, 1944

78 works on record

Biography

David Eugene Smith was an American mathematician, educator, and editor. He attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1881 (Ph. D., 1887; LL.D., 1905). He studied to be a lawyer concentrating in arts and humanities, but accepted an instructorship in mathematics at the Cortland Normal School in 1884, where he attended as a young man. He became a professor at the Michigan State Normal College in 1891 (later Eastern Michigan University), the principal at the State Normal School in Brockport, New York (1898), and a professor of mathematics at Teachers College, Columbia University (1901) where he remained until his retirement in 1926. Smith became president of the Mathematical Association of America in 1920 and served as the president of the History of Science Society in 1927. He also 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 Felix Klein's Famous Problems of Geometry, Fink's History of Mathematics, and the Treviso Arithmetic. He edited Augustus De Morgan's A Budget of Paradoxes (1915) and wrote many books on Mathematics.

Works

Addenda to Rara arithmetica which described in 1908 such European arithmetics printed before 1601 as were then in the library of the late George Arthur Plimpton

1939

A history of mathematics in America before 1900

1934

Exercises and tests in intermediate algebra

1934

The poetry of mathematics and other essays

1934

The problem and practice arithmetics

1929

A source book in mathematics

1929

Essentials of trigonometry

1928

History of mathematics

1923

Mathematics

1923

Essentials of plane geometry

1923

Essentials of plane and solid geometry

1923

Elements of projective geometry

1922

Computing jetons

1921

Number stories of long ago

1919

Number puzzles before the log fire

1919

Mathematics for nurses

1918

Union list of mathematical periodicals

1918

Problems about war for classes in arithmetic

1915

A history of Japanese mathematics

1914

Problems in the teaching of secondary mathematics

1913

The present teaching of mathematics in Germany

1912

Bibliography of the teaching of mathematics, 1900-1912

1912

The Hindu-Arabic numerals

1911

The teaching of geometry

1911

The teaching of arithmetic

1909

Rara arithmetica

1908

History of modern mathematics

1906

Intermediate arithmetic

1905

Advanced arithmetic

1905

Practical arithmetic

1905

Algebra for beginners

1905

Handbook to Smith's arithmetic

1905

The outlook for arithmetic in America

1904

Primary arithmetic

1904

Mathematics in the elementary school

1903

The teaching of elementary mathematics

1900

Walks And Talks in Numberland

The Geometry of Rene Descartes

New Plane And Solid Geometry

Analytic Geometry

Plane And Solid Geometry

Academic Algebra

Sherlock Holmes in Babylon

Higher Arithmetic

History of Japanese Mathematics

Geometrical solutions derived from mechanics, a treatise of Archimedes 1909 [Leather Bound]

Elements of Algebra

Junior High School Mathematics; Volume 3

Work and Play With Numbers

Mathematics in the Lower and Middle Commercial and Industrial Schools of Various Countries Represented in the International Commission on the Teaching of Mathematics, Issues 34-42