AMS Presidents: A Timeline

29. Einar Hille (1894-1980)

President 1947-1948

Hille was born in Stockholm, where he received his Ph.D. His principal academic appointments were at Princeton University (1922-1933) and at Yale Unviersity (1933 until his retirement in 1962). His main work was on integral equations, differential equations, special functions, Dirichlet series and Fourier series, and in his later years, functional analysis. Hille was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

• 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