AMS Presidents: A Timeline

46. Andrew Mattel Gleason (1921-2008)

President 1981-1982

Gleason's principal academic appointment has been at Harvard Unversity, starting in 1950. His areas of research are Banach spaces and classical geometry. He is known for his contribution to the solution of Hilbert's 5^th problem, and in 1959 chaired the advisory committee of the School Mathematics Study Group (which formulated the "New Math"). Gleason is 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)
• Mathematics Genealogy Project