AMS Presidents: A Timeline

19. Virgil Snyder (1869-1950)

President, 1927-1928

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.

• 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
• The Early History of the Cornell Mathematics Department, by Gary G. Cochell (Culver-Stockton College)