Evan William Evans, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Evan William Evans

Welsh-American mathematician

Date of Birth: 06-Jan-1827

Place of Birth: Llangyfelach, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 22-May-1874

Profession: professor, mathematician

Nationality: Wales

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Evan William Evans

  • Evan William Evans (January 6, 1827-May 22, 1874) was a Welsh-American mathematician and the first professor at Cornell University.
  • Evans, son of William and Catharine (Howell), was born Jan.
  • 6, 1827 in Llangyfelach, near Swansea, South Wales.
  • His parents moved to Bradford County, Pa., in 1831, where he obtained his early education.
  • He graduated from Yale College in 1851.
  • He studied theology at New Haven for about a year, and then became principal of the Delaware Literary Institute, in Franklin, N.
  • Y.
  • From this position he was called to a tutorship at Yale, which he resigned, however, after one year's service (1855-6).
  • In 1857 he was appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy at Marietta College, Ohio, and filled that place until 1864.
  • He was then for three years occupied in Mining Engineering, and spent a fourth year in European travel.
  • He was the first professor appointed in Cornell University, N.
  • Y., and from the opening of that institution, in the fall of 1868, until 1872, filled the chair of Mathematics.
  • He resigned on account of failing health, and after an absence of a few months at the South, returned to Ithaca, and gradually sank, until his death of consumption, May 22, 1874.
  • Professor Evans was a general scholar, and while excelling in mathematics, was perhaps the most thorough Celtic student in this country.
  • He was married, Aug.
  • 6, 1856, to Helen E., daughter of Rev.
  • Dr.
  • Tertius S Clarke, then of Franklin, N.
  • Y.
  • She survived him, with several children. This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.

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