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Levi Leonard Conant (born March 3, 1857, Littleton, Massachusetts — d. October 11, 1916, Worcester, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician specializing in trigonometry. ==Education and career== He attended Phillips Academy, Andover and Dartmouth College (B.A., 1879, A.M., 1887) and later Syracuse University (Ph.D., 1893), studying mathematics. He was professor of mathematics at the Dakota School of Mines from 1887 to 1890, then attended Clark University for a year before beginning teaching at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1891, where he taught for the remainder of his life. He was head of the Mathematics Department at WPI from 1908 until his death, and was interim president from 1911 to 1913. He married twice, first in 1884 to Laura Chamberlain (died 1911) and again in 1912 to Emma B. Fisher. On October 11, 1916, aged 59, he was struck by a truck in front of his home and was killed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Levi L. Conant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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