AMS Presidents: A Timeline

13. Ernest William Brown (1866-1938)

President, 1915-1916

Brown, born in England, became internationally recognized as one of the premier mathematical astronomers of the time, contributing greatly to the theory of the moon's orbit, and to the more general field of celestial mechanics. He was professor of mathematics at Yale University from 1907 until his retirement in 1932. Brown 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
• Mathematics Genealogy Project