Friends intervened and opened the possibility of a position at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. No students known. He had published his University of Chicago master's thesis in mathematics, "Loci Connected with the Problem of Two Bodies" and had been teaching mathematics at the collegiate level for two decades, the last seven at Howard University, then the most prestigious African American university in the country. We hope you take the time to click on each image to see a larger view and to learn what the artist, Michael Arnold has to say about his paintings. He was denied the opportunity to work at the Institute for Advanced Study because Princeton would not accept a colored person, and he was unable to attend departmental seminars at the University of Michigan, even while working under the prestigious and competitive Rosenwald fellowship, and was unable to obtain a faculty position there. Woodards Ph.D. thesis was the first research paper published in an accredited mathematics journal by an African American, and Woodard became only the second African American to earn a Ph.D. in math. The State University of New York at Buffalo. John R. Kline continued to mentor Claytor and on his recommendation Claytor obtained a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1937. Webfound: The Mathematics Department of The State University of New York at Buffalo website, viewed November 25, 2014 (Dudley Weldon Woodard; born: October 3, 1881 Dissertation: On Two-Dimensional Analysis Situs with Special Reference to the Jordan Curve Theorem. Click on the links below for detailed information and photos on African American scientists and inventors who rose to the top of their field, Original acrylic paintings by Michael Arnold, photographs and information on all dog breeds. The modern Department of Mathematics at Penn dates from 1899 when mathematics at Penn became fully distinguished from cognate disciplines. Courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Professor of Mathematics. Penn is proud to claim him among its most distinguished Cox in 1925) Woodard, and his wife had a son who Dr. Woodard was not only 95 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<063F580BF30F426895351C8368089334><9AE5E37C6FEF0A40AE378FA6023E3BF1>]/Index[66 48]/Info 65 0 R/Length 125/Prev 291350/Root 67 0 R/Size 114/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream Dudley Weldon Woodard, in Howard University yearbook, 1927. When Dudley Weldon Woodard (1881-1965) enrolled in the Graduate School at Penn in 1927, he had already accumulated a remarkable set of achievements. WebHe holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley and has published more than a dozen scholarly articles. degree from Wilberforce University in Ohio (1903), his B.S. Woodard and Claytor attended classes here and in Bennett Hall, where the Mathematics Research Library was located. After service in the United States Army during World War II, Claytor renewed his teaching, but ceased his research. In 1934, Dr. Claytor published his embedding theorem, which stated, a Peano continuum K is homeomorphic to a subset of the surface of a sphere if and only if it contains neither a primitive skew curve nor a topological image of either of the Figures 7 or 8. (see image left) The Polish mathematician Casmir Kuratowski had introduced Figures 7 and 8, but Claytor advanced the theory and incorporated it into an effective whole. The second of these, The Characterization of the Closed N-Cell in Fundamenta Mathematicae, 13 (1929), is, according to Scott Williams, Professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York-Buffalo, the first paper published in an accredited mathematics journal by an African American. and research. Woodard's teacher at Penn, Professor John R. Kline, agreed to advise Claytor. P C Kenshaft, Black Men and Women in Mathematical Research. et, al], [Taylor], Woodard, D. W., On two dimensional analysis situs Opened February 16, 1999. and M.S., University of Chicago, 1906 and 1907; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1928. Visit my RedBubble page and use Michael Arnold Art to create greeting cards, T-shirts, mugs, and more. John R. Kline continued to mentor Claytor and on his recommendation Claytor obtained a Rosenwald Fellowship in 1937. He also ate at many "nice" restaurants and enjoyed the theaters of his choice in New York. Penn has been the home of a number of notable African Americans, including civil rights activist W.E.B Du Bois, but only more recently have the stories of its pioneering mathematicians come to light. No corresponding effort, however, has expanded our knowledge to include the first African American graduates of the two dozen distinct academic disciplines in the School of Arts and Sciences. In 2001, Tyson was appointed by President Bush to serve on a 12-member commission that studied the Future of the US Aerospace Industry. Jesse P. Clay, and Orville Keane. The Annenberg Public Policy Center invites attendees to screen a short documentary film about the story of Juneteenth and why we celebrate it. College Hall, University of Pennsylvania, housed the Department of Mathematics from its inception in 1899 until the Departments move to the David Rittenhouse Laboratory Building in 1954. Claytor was a brilliant student. @emaze_tweets is the leading online #presentation software. in mathematics under Prof. J. R. Kline. More significantly, Woodard was only the second African American in the nation to receive that degree. Read more, These men and women risked and sometimes lost their life to fight for the cause. Dudley had 12 kids. Photograph courtesy of the National Association of Mathematicians, Claytor, Schieffelin. references: [Houston Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. During a nine-day winter break trip, students in Jianghong Lius Penn Global seminar experienced and learned about practices like tea therapy, cupping, Qi Gong, and more. Dudley Weldon Woodard (October 3, 1881 July 1, 1965) was an American mathematician and professor, and the second African-American to earn a PhD in Mathematics; the first was Woodard's mentor Elbert Frank Cox, who earned a PhD from Cornell in 1925). Professor of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 1920 - 1955; Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, 1933 - 1954; and Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics, 1941 - 1955. Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts. Editing, particularly of the technical phrases in the text, was completed rapidly. He also helped establish learning centers. WebDudley Woodard passed away on October 9, 2018 in Bethesda, Maryland. In the early 1920s he began taking advanced mathematics courses in the summer sessions at Columbia University. Kline. Their contributions to University history were celebrated in A Century of Black Presence, an exhibition opened in 1980 and still on display in the lobby of the DuBois College House. Home News Random Article In the early 1920s, Woodard began taking advanced mathematics In the early 1920s Dudley Woodard began taking advanced mathematics courses in the summer sessions at Columbia University. It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most. He also established a mathematics library at Howard. in mathematics in the years 1906 and 1907 respectively. there are quotes attributed to Woodard himself that stated "I It then became clear that he was among the gifted mathematicians in the nation. Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the National Association of Mathematicians (1980). By the time it is removed next month for delivery to DuBois College House, the exhibit will have enjoyed a full six-month run here at the David Rittenhouse Laboratory. WebGiven that Claytor was publishing in the Annals and building on the work of eminent mathematicians, he was a highly promising student, says Hynd. In 1882 the University of Pennsylvania established its Ph.D. program in arts and sciences and ten years later awarded its first doctorate in mathematics. I am Patricia Vickers, Manager of the University Records Center, and I am pleased to speak to you today on behalf of Rahsaan Maxwell, the curator of this exhibition, who is in Japan and Mark Lloyd, the director of the University Archives and Records Center, who is in New York City. He enrolled at Penn in the 1930-31 academic year, won a Harrison Scholarship in Mathematics in his second year, and took the most prestigious award offered at Penn at that time, a Harrison Fellowship in Mathematics, in his third and final year of graduate studies. He died on July 1, 1965, at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, aged 83.[1][11][12][13][14]. We also wish to thank Professor Jerry Porter, who conceived the Woodard / Claytor exhibition and whose determination played a large part in bringing it to fruition. Over a period of six weeks he steadily assembled detailed and reliable biographical accounts. Columbia's loss was Penn's gain when in 1927 Woodard took scholarly leave from Howard and spent a year at Penn, working under the direction of John R. Kline, one of the best and brightest of Penn's mathematics faculty. degree (1906) and M.Sc. Born in Galveston, Texas, on October 3, 1881, Woodard took an Bachelor of Arts at Wilberforce University in Ohio (1903), a Bachelor of Surgery (1906) and an Master of Surgery (1907) at the University of Chicago. Along with Woodard and Claytors theses are the work of George Hench Butcher Jr., who earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Penn in 1951; an almanac by Benjamin Banneker, who is known for tracking the spread of yellow fever across Philadelphia; and modern publications such as John Urschels autobiography about his interests in both math and football. community. died: July 1, 1965, A.B. On Wednesday, 21 June 1933, Penn conferred its PhD on Claytor, who thereby became the third African American in the nation to earn the degree in mathematics. But in that era of pervasive racial discrimination only a predominantly African American institution, West Virginia State College, welcomed him to its faculty. By early August he had prepared draft text and submitted it to the Mathematics faculty. Claytor went on to serve in the Army during World War II as an instructor in Anti-Aircraft Artillery Schools, and a chance meeting with statistician David Blackwell led Claytor to joining the math faculty at Howard after teaching stints at Southern University, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the Hampton Institute, now Hampton University, in Virginia. and student profiles, research updates, and the latest happenings on campus. to the University of Pennsylvania and earned the Ph.D. degree His 37 citations in 2004 place him fourth (1907) at the University of Chicago. More significantly, Woodard was only the second African American in the nation to receive that degree. One of Woodards most promising students was Claytor, who was born in 1908 and raised in Virginia. He received his B.A. After earning a bachelors degree in mathematics from Howard in 1929, Claytor became the first student to enroll in the newly established mathematics graduate program. 113 0 obj <>stream he was not only a professor of mathematics but was selected Dean %%EOF [1][11][12][13][14]. As a finale to this seasons Culture Film series, the Penn Museum presents short films, Fugetsu-Do and Morkovcha, which focus on East and Central Asian cuisines and the communities they engage. and Woodard Website. All of us at the University Archives hope that this tribute to African American accomplishment at Penn has helped -- and will continue to help -- the University be a better place to study and work than it otherwise would have been. because it was aesthetically nice and it was near Howard. a brilliant mathematician, but a man of high intelligence and On Wednesday, 21 June 1933, Penn conferred its Ph.D. on Claytor, who thereby became the third African American in the nation to earn the degree in mathematics. WebDudley Weldon Woodard (18811965) 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. Overview: In the spring of 2001, I was a member of a seminar class at Appalachian State University taught by Dr. Sarah J. Greenwald. In his lifetime he published three papers, the second, The Characterization of the Closed North-Cell in Fundamenta Mathematicae, 13 (1929), is, according to Scott Williams, Professor of Mathematics at The State University of New York, Buffalo, the first paper published in an accredited mathematics journal by an African American. He retired in 1947, after leading his department through 25 years of advancement and progress through an age of severe racial discrimination. Scott W. Williams All Rights Reserved. [3] His doctoral thesis was entitled, On Two-Dimensional Analysis Situs with Special Reference to the Jordan Curve Theorem, and was advised by John R. Hopefully, when we get more students like Claytor and Woodard, well encourage them to do great things, says Hynd. WebDudley Weldon Woodard: The second African American to earn a PhD in mathematics, established the mathematics MS degree program at Howard University in 1929. He had been a member of the faculty for seven years at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama; for six years at Wilberforce University in Ohio; and since 1920, at Howard University, then the most prestigious African American university in the country. (1928) University of Pennsylvania professor. [4][6] He also published a study for the Committee of twelve for the advancement of the interests of the Negro race on Jackson, Mississippi in 1909,[7] a textbook, Practical Arithmetic (1911),[8] and an article on geometry teaching at Tuskegee in 1913.[9]. Woodard taught as such prestigious schools as the Tuskegee Institute, Howard University, and the University of Chicago. degree from at Wilberforce University in Ohio (1903), his B.S. After teaching at Tuskegee University and Wilberforce, Woodard joined the faculty at Howard University in 1920. & SocialSciences, Arts, WebDudley Weldon Woodard. [10] One of his best known students was William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor, who later took his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania (1933), also under Woodard's former advisor, John R. Kline. Additionally, he was apparently highly WebWoodard was a brilliant individual that overcame the racial barriers of his time, and became only the second African American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. & Fleming], The web pages He died in 1965. mathematician born: October 3, 1881 Galveston, Texas. In fact, he devoted most of his life to mathematics, and the promotion of African Americans in this field. Courtesy of the National Association of Mathematicians. WebPictures of Dudley Weldon Woodard. Dr. Dudley Weldon Woodard, the First African-American Mathematician to Publish a Research Paper in an International Accredited Mathematics Journal A Dudley Woodard devoted his entire professional life to the promotion of excellence in mathematics through the advancement of his students, teaching and research. Eighteen years ago, also under the auspices of the University Archives, extensive research established the names and biographies of the first African American alumni at each of Penn's twelve schools. When Claytor published his dissertation, he had every reason to expect competing offers from Americas leading research universities. appears to be the first research paper published in an accredited He used the phrase, "black is Elbert Frank Cox (1895-1969). Webinternationally known specialist in Woodards field as, one of the noblest men Ive ever known. (These quotes can be found in the Journal of Black Studies.Vol.18 No.2, December 1987,170-190.) He had been a member of the faculty for seven years at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama; for six years at Wilberforce University in Ohio; and since 1920, at Howard University, then the most prestigious African American university in the country. B.S., Wilberforce University, 1903; B.S. Woodard was a respected mathematician, professor and mentor to his students at Howard University in Washington DC, where he established the masters program in mathematics. Woodard received the Ph.D. in mathematics WebDudley Weldon Woodard was an American mathematician and professor, and the second African-American to earn a PhD in Mathematics; the first was Woodard's mentor Elbert and his intellectual curiosity was probably supported by his Woodard was a respected mathematician, professor and mentor to his students at Howard University in Washington District of Columbia, where he had established the graduate mathematics programOne of his best known students was William Waldron Shieffelin Claytor, who later took his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (1933), also under Woodard"s former advisor, John R. Kline.Woodard retired in 1947, after having become chairman of the mathematics department. mathematics faculty at Howard University in 1920. leave from Howard and spent a year at Penn, working under the Woodard was a respected mathematician, professor and mentor to his students at Howard University in Washington DC, where he established the masters program in mathematics. University of Pennsylvania, 1934. After Mathematicae, 13 (1929), 121-145], and "The Characterization We collect and match historical records that Ancestry users have contributed to their family trees to create each persons profile. Perhaps this exhibition will serve to encourage such additional research; surely it answers any questions concerning the distinguished presence of African Americans in the history of Mathematics at Penn. 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