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David Eugene Smith
David Eugene Smith (January 21, 1860 – July 29, 1944) was an American mathematician, educator, and editor.
==Education and career==
David Eugene Smith is considered one of the founders of the field of mathematics education. Smith was born in Cortland, New York, to Abram P. Smith, attorney and surrogate judge, and Mary Elizabeth Bronson, who taught her young son Latin and Greek. He attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1881 (Ph. D., 1887; LL.D., 1905). He studied to be a lawyer concentrating in arts and humanities, but accepted an instructorship in mathematics at the Cortland Normal School in 1884 〔http://www.maa.org/history/presidents/smith.html〕 where he attended as a young man.〔http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2424/Smith-David-Eugene-1860-1944.html〕 While at the Cortland Normal School Smith became a member of the Young Men's Debating Club〔An Honorable Record: Some of the alumni of the Young Men's Debating Club. Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, April 12, 1895.〕 (today the Delphic Fraternity.) He became a professor at the Michigan State Normal College in 1891 (later Eastern Michigan University), the principal at the State Normal School in Brockport, New York (1898), and a professor of mathematics at Teachers College, Columbia University (1901) where he remained until his retirement in 1926.
Smith became president of the Mathematical Association of America in 1920〔 and served as the president of the History of Science Society in 1927.〔The History of Science Society ("The Society: Past Presidents of the History of Science Society" ), accessed 4 December 2013〕 He also wrote a large number of publications of various types. He was editor of the ''Bulletin'' of the American Mathematical Society; contributed to other mathematical journals; published a series of textbooks; translated Felix Klein's ''Famous Problems of Geometry'', Fink's ''History of Mathematics'', and the Treviso Arithmetic. He edited〔G. B. Mathews (1916) (A Budget of Paradoxes ) From Nature 97:77 to 79 (#2421)〕 Augustus De Morgan's ''A Budget of Paradoxes'' (1915) and wrote many books on Mathematics which are listed below.
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