doctoral_advisor death_date death_place birth_place nationality fields workplaces birth_date doctoral_students image article_title name alma_mater
carl neumann sup de wilhelm scheibner 10 april 1930 worcester , massachusetts boston , massachusetts american mathematics johns hopkins university clark university 29 april 1850 linnaeus dowling solomon lefschetz henry taber william edward story -lrb- 1850-1930 -rrb- . png william edward story
 william edward story harvard university university of leipzig
william edward story

william edward story -lrb- april 29 , 1850 -- april 10 , 1930 -rrb- was an american mathematician who taught at johns hopkins university and clark university .
william was born in boston to isaac marion story -lrb- 1818-1901 -rrb- and elizabeth bowen woodberry -lrb- 1817-1888 -rrb- .
he attended high school in somerville , massachusetts , and entered harvard university in the fall of 1867 .
he graduated with honors in mathematics and began graduate study in germany in september 1871 .
in berlin he attended lectures of weierstrass , ernst kummer , helmholtz and dove .
in leipzig he heard karl neumann , bruhns , mayer , van der müll , and engelmann .
he earned a ph.d. in leipzig in 1875 with a dissertation `` on the algebraic relations existing between the polars of a binary quantic . ''
w.e. story began his teaching career at harvard as a tutor .
with the establishment of johns hopkins university in 1876 , story was recruited by daniel coit gilman as an associate .
j. j. sylvester led the program in mathematics .
story was instrumental in starting two publication projects : `` the johns hopkins university circulars '' was a student paper detailing classes and attendees .
american journal of mathematics was also started as a joint effort of sylvester and story , but soon story was replaced by thomas craig as managing editor .
in 1893 story became an associate professor ; he taught courses on quaternions , elliptic functions , invariant theory , mathematical astronomy and mathematical elasticity .
when clark university was established in 1889 , president g. stanley hall hired oskar bolza and story to lead the mathematics department .
henry taber was hired as docent , he had studied with story at johns hopkins .
solomon lefschetz and other mathematicians contributed to making clark the leading site for mathematics in the usa until 1892 when university of chicago eclipsed it .
clark university ceased its graduate program in 1919 and story retired in 1921 .
