AMS Presidents: A Timeline

9. Henry Seely White (1861-1943)

President, 1907-1908

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.

• 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
• Columbia University Archival Collection of Henry Seely White Papers, 1895-1903