Dudley Weldon Woodard [SEP] date of death
Dudley Weldon Woodard
Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881–1965) was an African American mathematician and professor, and the second person of African descent to earn a PhD in Mathematics, the first being Elbert Frank Cox, (PhD Cornell, 1925), Woodard's mentor.
Biography.
Born in Galveston, Texas, on October 3, 1881, Woodard took an A.B. at Wilberforce University in Ohio (1903), a B.S. (1906) and an M.S. (1907) at the University of Chicago. Woodward then taught collegiate
), published his first problem in "American Mathematical Monthly".
1916: Dudley Weldon Woodard became a charter member of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
1925: Elbert Frank Cox is the first African-American awarded a doctoral degree in mathematics, from Cornell University.
1929: Dudley Weldon Woodard is the first African-American mathematician known to publish in a mathematics journal, with an article "On two-dimensional analysis situs with special reference to the Jordan curve-theorem" in "Fundamenta