Arnold Ross

Arnold Ephraim Ross (August 24, 1906 – September 25, 2002) was a mathematician and educator who founded the Ross Mathematics Program at the Ohio State University. He was born in Chicago, but spent his childhood in Odessa, Russia before moving back to his hometown when he was 16 (1922). It was there at the University of Chicago, where he earned his PhD in mathematics (under L. E. Dickson) in 1931. In that same year, he married Bertha Horecker, nicknamed "Bee." Over the years, he taught at Caltech, People's Junior College, and St. Louis University. When World War II arose, he put in time doing mathematical research for the U.S. Navy. After the war, the University of Notre Dame appointed him Head of the Mathematics department (1946). It...