Boyd Crumrine Patterson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American mathematician
Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1902
Place of Birth: McKeesport, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 12-Jul-1988
Profession: mathematician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Boyd Crumrine Patterson
- Boyd Crumrine Patterson was a mathematician and the ninth president of Washington & Jefferson College.Patterson was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on April 23, 1902, and graduated from Washington and Jefferson College in 1923, completing his studies in three years.
- He was a member of the well-known Crumrine family of Washington County and a third-generation W&J graduate.
- His father, John P.
- Patterson, was a member of W&J's class of 1885; his grandfather, Boyd Crumrine, a noted local historian, was in Jefferson College's class of 1860.
- He was also a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.For graduate study, Boyd went to Johns Hopkins University where he studied inversive geometry with Frank Morley.
- In 1926, he wrote a dissertation "Differential Invariants of Inversive Geometry" for his doctoral degree. Patterson returned to Washington & Jefferson College as a member of the faculty from 1926 to 1927 before taking a mathematics professorship at Hamilton College.
- Continuing to collaborate with Morley, they co-wrote a paper on algebraic inversive invariants in 1930.
- In 1943, Patterson became the chair of the mathematics department at Hamilton.In 1950, he returned to W&J to assume its presidency.
- In that position, he oversaw curriculum revisions, updated admissions standards, and generally enhanced Washington and Jefferson's reputation.
- All told, 17 buildings were constructed during Patterson's tenure, including the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity House, the Wilbur F.
- Henry Memorial Physical Education Center, ten Greek housing units in the center of campus, the U.
- Grant Miller Library, the Student Center, the Commons, and two new dormitories.
- The athletic fields also were improved.
- In 1952, the college's two war surplus barracks, Washington Hall and Jefferson Hall, were dismantled.
- During his presidency, the college's endowment expanded from $2.3 million to nearly $11 million.On December 12, 1969, the Board of Trustees authorized the admission of women as undergraduate students, to be effective in September 1970.
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- Patterson retired on June 30, 1970.
- He died of a stroke on July 12, 1988, in his home in Clinton, New York.
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