What organization did Kenneth O. May join in Nov 1971?
Kenneth O . May Kenneth O . May ( July 8 , 1915 , in Portland , Oregon – December 1977 , in Toronto ) was an American mathematician and historian of mathematics , who developed Mays theorem . May was a prime mover behind the International Commission on the History of Mathematics , and was the first editor of its journal Historia Mathematica . Every four years the ICHM awards the Kenneth O . May Prize for outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics . Biography . Kenneth was born in 1915 , the son of Samuel Chester Sam May ( 1887–1955 ) and Eleanor Ownsworth Perkin . His father , an alumnus of the University of Oregon and Yale Law School , practised law in Portland , Oregon beginning in 1913 . After earning a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University , Sam in 1920 began teaching political science at Dartmouth College , and later at the University of California , Berkeley . At the University of California , Kenneth May played was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior , and studied under Griffith C . Evans . May joined the Communist Party and the Institute of Pacific Relations , of which he served as secretary from 1933 . May’s mother died in a gas heater explosion at home in 1935 . The following year he was granted the A.B . degree and named to the Order of the Golden Bear . In 1937 May was granted a master’s degree and was selected by the Institute of Current World Affairs for foreign study . He participated in a Russian seminar and expected to study in Russia , but those plans fell through and he took up study at the London School of Economics . May was married on July 25 , 1938 . His wife , Ruth , had a leave of absence from her school for study at the Sorbonne , so the couple studied there for a year . In 1939 they travelled , including to Moscow where May visited the Kharkov Engineering-Economics Institute . Returning to California , May became a teaching assistant , assigned to mathematics of finance and calculus with analytic geometry . May’s work with the communist party led to alienation from his father and dismissal from his job . In 1942 he ran for California State Treasurer under the Communist banner . Mays associations with J . Robert Oppenheimer were used as evidence in his trial . In World War II May attempted to join up , but until Ruth filed for divorce in June 1942 , he could not be drafted . Mays unit was sent to Kiska Island in the Aleutian chain . In May 1944 , May married Jacqueline Bromley . His career in the military was recounted in Stars and Stripes ( Europe ) March 3 , 1945 . In 1946 May submitted his thesis , Mathematical Theory of Employment for the Ph.D . He then received a teaching appointment at Carleton College in Northfield , Minnesota . As a protest against the Vietnam War , in 1966 May signed a vow of tax resistance . He moved to Canada the same year . May is remembered for his Bibliography and Research Manual of the History of Mathematics ( 1973 ) published by University of Toronto Press . He made editorial contributions to the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics . He managed the compilation of an index for the first 80 volumes of American Mathematical Monthly and wrote numerous book reviews . Philip Enros compiled a bibliography of May’s writings that was published in 1984 . References . - Albert C . Lewis ( 2004 ) Kenneth O . May and Information Retrieval in Mathematics , Historia Mathematica 31 ( 2 ) : 186–95 External links . - A Brief History of the Kenneth O . May Prize in the History of Mathematics - Book in honour of May and his Prize