AMS Presidents: A Timeline

5. Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924)

President, 1899-1900

Woodward had a life-long interest in the earth--its shape, its tides, its atmosphere, and in geophysical problems. He was a remarkably successful teacher and administrator at Columbia University (New York, New York) from 1893-1904. Woodward served as president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. from 1904-1921, and 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