David Harold Blackwell: A Brief Biography

program. Cox was the first African American to earn the degree ever. In 1925 Cox was teaching once again. He became the head of the mathematics and physics department at West Virginia State College which was an all black school at the time. In 1927 Cox married Beulah P. Kaufman, An elementary school teacher. They had three sons named Elbert, James, and Eugene. After doing four years of teaching Cox moved to Washington D.C., and joined the faculty at Howard University eventually becoming mathematics department chair in 1947 up until 1961 at the age of 65. Cox had to stepped down due to department age rules. He then joined Howard University staff as a professor and advising numerous successful master’s degree candidates in mathematics. He remained there until retirement which was 1966. In 1969 on November 28, Elbert Frank Cox died due to illness at the age of 73. Although he did not live to see his

While Cox did not live to see the inauguration of the Ph.D. program at Howard, it is believed by many that Cox did much to make it possible. Cox helped to build up the department to the point that the Ph.D. program became a practical next step. He gave the department a great deal of credibility; primarily because of this personal prestige as a mathematician, as being the first Black to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics, because of the nature and kinds of appointments to the faculty that were made while he chaired the Department, and because of the kinds of students that he attracted to Howard to study mathematics at both the undergraduate and master's

Dr. Blackwell was appointed a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study from 1941 for a year . At that time members of the Institute were automatically officially made visting fellows of Princeton University , and thus Blackwell was listed in its bulletin as such . This caused considerable ruckus as there had never been a black student much less faculty fellow , at the University most

Vladimir de Jesus is a student of LaGuardia Community College and his major is in art. Mr. de Jesus is facing many obstacles as a student because he has one daughter, who he needs to take care of full time. Also, in this family, he has no one to support him financially and mentally. Mr. de Jesus does get finical aid, but it is not enough. However, he still needs to pay part of his tuition fee. Another obstacle he is facing is that he had failed math 90 for the third times. According to the author, more than 60 percent of Community College students have to take developmental math courses and 70 percent of students do not pass. The college made some change in their math course by getting the students to take more statistics-based math

All is fair in love and war, is a saying we have all heard before. In many cases it is true, but in the instance of David Owen Dodd it is also untrue. Dodd was a very brave young man that should get more credit than he has. Most people have never heard of David Owen Dodd , this is because the young man only lived to be 17.

avid Blackwell is, to mathematicians, the most famous, perhaps greatest, African American Mathematician. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in 1938, Master of Arts in Mathematics in 1939, and his Ph.D. in 1941 (at the age of 22), all from the University of Illinois. He is the seventh African American to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics. He is the first and only African American to be any one of: a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a President of the American Statistical Society, and a Vice President of the America Mathematics Society. David Harold Blackwell grew up in Centralia, Illinois, a town of 12,000 on the "Mason-Dixson Line." He was raised in a family which expected and supported working hard and a little faster than

When people think about mathematicians, they typically refer to white, doctorate-educated male. However, there are more women budding into the field of mathematics. This paper will focus on one special woman, an African-American woman by the name of Evelyn Boyd Granville. She is not the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics, but she, unlike Euphemia Lofton Haynes, stayed more out of the education field and primarily worked for NASA, contributing to many expeditions in space. Her contributions have inspired many young girls to look into and pursue a career in the field of mathematics.

Kenneth Blackwell was born in San Fierro on May 7, 1994. His family had a record of having lots of blue-collar workers for the past generations, his father was a coal miner working in Hunter Quarry but his mother was a nurse in a large facility owned by San Fierro Medical Center. As Blackwell grew up he began to take interest in outdoor, blue-collar work like his ancestors did but he also had an interest in medical care and first aid; this was attributed to his mother. Blackwell graduated from San Fierro High School in 2012 with good scores and decided to go to state college. The family was not financially healthy so joining a state college was not an option for Blackwell. Despite his setback and lack of opportunity in his home town, he decided

David Blackwell earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1938 and his master's the following year of 1939. At

Throughout the four years at Marist College, people continuously asked, “What can you do with a mathematics degree besides teach?” or “Do you just do mathematics equations all day?” However, the answers is always the same. Mathematics is so much more than just equations. The Marist Mathematics Department teaches each student the required material, while teaching how to think differently and how to approach problems from different and multiple angles. This way of thinking can be applied to every aspect of life, as well as the core. In case that is not enough, mathematics hides in the background of almost everything, especially history, nature, and social science; it is just our job to uncover it.

Katherine Johnson is a mathematician who worked for NASA’s aeronautics program. She is currently 99 years old and was born in August 26, 1918. She was born and raised in white Sulphur Springs in West Virginia. She has 4 older siblings, and her mother, Joylette Coleman, was a school teacher while her dad, Joshua Coleman, was a handyman and farmer. She has a natural talent for math at a young age, but the schools in her county didn’t have schools for african americans past the 8th grade. Thus her parents took her to Institute, Virginia, at the time she was only 10 years old, to continue her education. She graduated high school at 14 then went into college at West Virginia State

Charles L. Reason was an African American mathmatician in the year of 1849. He was born on July 21, 1818 in New York City. His parents were Michiel and Elizabeth Reason. Both of his parents were West Indies and that made them immigrants. At a young age like any other child Charles attended a school named by the African Free School. He went to school with his siblings who are Elmer and Patrick. Today both of Charles brother's are relevant historical characters in their own right. Reason has always been an incredible student in mathematics. He even became the instructor of the school at only the age of fourteen in 1832. It had been a bizzare matter for the news. He recieved a salary of $25 a year. Using his gain he then hired tutors to better what he already knew. Succeeding, he tried

The Special Issue in Teachers College Record was comprised of five papers that examined how well respected African American mathematics teachers in urban settings influence the development of students’ mathematics identity. While the podcast interview briefly discussed all the articles that comprised the Special Issue, particular focus was given to Clark’s case studies, which focused on the racialized experiences of two African American mathematics teachers.

Over the years I have heard stories from my relatives about how much I would like painting my aunts’ nails, wearing my mother’s heels, and debating everyday on what I wanted to wear for school. Matching my clothes, having my nails painted, and having my hair nicely done everyday, were a must for me as a child. Along with always trying to enhance my composition, I have had a love for shopping ever since I remember. Although fashion has always been a focal point in my interests, there has been another prominent factor, which also relates to my career choice just as fashion does. Math is the answer to anybody who asked me what my favorite subject in school was, making it another one of my passions in life. The process

Mathematics is a type of reasoning. Thinking mathematically includes thinking in a rational way, developing and checking conjectures, understanding things, and forming and validating judgments, reasoning, and conclusions. We show mathematical habits when we acknowledge and explain patterns, build physical and theoretical models of sensations, develop sign systems to assist us stand for, control, and review concepts, and create treatments to address issues (Battista, 1999).