19. Virgil Snyder

President, 1927–1928

Ph.D. University of Göttingen, Germany, 1894

During his more than forty years at Cornell University, Snyder devoted himself to improving the teaching of mathematics, guiding his students into research, and carrying on his research in the fields of geometry of the line and sphere, configurations of ruled surfaces, and birational transformations.

Additional information

• MR Author Profile
• A Semicentennial History of the American Mathematical Society, 1888--1938, by Raymond Clare Archibald (AMS, 1938), which contains CV, honors, bibliography, biographical notes and sources.
• The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
• Mathematics Genealogy Project