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Scott W. Williams is an African American male. Scott Williams was born April 22, 1943 in Staten Island, New York. He was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Scott Williams is an only grandchild. His grandparents strongly valued Education. All of his aunts and uncles on both sides had Master's degrees at least. Scott Williams' father's father taught in an integrated elementary school in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. His mother's Algonquin Indian mother was a business woman who also formed a Colored woman's reading group in 1900 Bangor, Maine. His mother Beryl E. Williams was the first Black to graduate from the University of Maine in 1936, later earning the M.S. in mathematics in 1940. His father, Roger K. Williams, was one of the first Blacks to earn a Ph.D. in Psychology at Penn State University in 1946. When he was 12, Scott Williams' mother took him to see the M.I.T. campus during a family trip to Boston. After her description of the Institute as a great place of mathematical learning, he said, "Mom, I will get a Ph.D. here in Mathematics." Despite a nearly perfect College Board Exam (now the SAT) math score, Williams didn’t get a …show more content…

Williams has given nearly 90 invited conference lectures, colloquia, and seminar lectures on his mathematics research at 56 institutions in seven countries and is a columnist with the journal Topology Atlas. Scott Williams has also a great interest in teaching. He has lectured to high ability high school students many times over the past 20 years. In 1983 he was awarded the State University of New York's Chancellor Award for Excellence in Teaching. His interest in the history of blacks in mathematics led to his world wide web book, "Mathematicians of the African Diaspora," which has received numerous awards. He has also served as an advisor to programs for the National Research Council and the National Science Foundation. He is co-founder of the Council for African American Researchers in the Mathematical

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