9. Henry Seely White

President, 1907–1908

Ph.D. University of Göttingen, Germany, 1891

White did research in the fields of theory of invariants, geometry of curves and surfaces, special types of (3,3) correspondences, algebraic curves and twisted curves of low orders, homeomorphic sets of lines in a plane, and relativity in mechanics. White was a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Additional information

• 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