22. Arthur Byron Coble (1878-1966)

President, 1933-1934

Coble came to the University of Illinois in 1918 and (except for the year 1927-28 spent at his alma mater Johns Hopkins) remained there. His research concerned finite geometries and the group theory related to them, Cremona transformations associated with the Galois theory of equations, and the relations between hyperelliptic theta functions, irrational binary invariants, the Weddle surface and the Kummer surface. Coble 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
• Arthur B. Coble Papers, 1903-53, in the archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign