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Bates, William Hunt

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1870-

Biographical Information

William Hunt Bates grew up in Woodbury, Tennessee. He attended Vanderbilt University where he was awarded the Founders Medal in 1894 and earned his BA in the same year. He received his AM from the University of Chicago in 1902, and later received his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1910. Bates started his teaching career as an assistant professor of Mathematics at Purdue University in 1906. He was also a member of the American Mathematical Society.

Citation:
Author: E. Wilkinson

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

William H. Bates papers

 Collection — Box Communal Collections 14, Placement: 20
Identifier: MSF 28
Scope and Contents

This collection contains two articles by William Bates:

Recent Co-ordination Of College Mathematical Topics, The Educator Journal, v. 9, no. 7, March 1909.

An Application Of Symbolic Methods To The Treatment Of Mean Curvatures In Hyperspace.

Dates: 1909 - 1910