32. Gordon Thomas Whyburn

President 1953–1954

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1927

Whyburn served as chair of the mathematics department at the University of Virginia from 1934 until 1966. His research was in the fields of topology, cyclic elements, the structure of continua, and homology theory. Whyburn was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Additional information

• MR Author Profile
• History of the Second Fifty Years: American Mathematical Society, 1939-1988, by Everett Pitcher (AMS, 1988), which includes AMS Presidents from 1939-1988 (and reports on all aspects of the Society during the period).
• The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
• Mathematics Genealogy Project
• A Guide to the Gordon Thomas Whyburn Papers, the Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
• Photographs in "Who's That Mathematician? Images from the Paul R. Halmos Photograph Collection".