Howard Eves

Howard Whitley Eves (10 January 1911 New Jersey – 6 June 2004) was an American mathematician, known for his work in geometry and the history of mathematics. Eves received his B.S. from the University of Virginia, the M.A. from Harvard University, and Ph.D. in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1948. In 1936–1937, while at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he befriended Albert Einstein. He then spent most of his career at the University of Maine, 1954–1976. In later life, he occasionally taught at University of Central Florida. Eves was a strong spokesman for the Mathematical Association of America, which he joined in 1942, and whose Northeast Section he founded. For 25 years he edited the Elementary Problems...