Mathematician:David Eugene Smith

American mathematician and educator best known for his translations of classics.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 1860
 * Died: 1944

Books and Papers

 * Translated:
 * Famous Problems of Geometry by Felix Klein
 * A Brief History of Mathematics by Karl Fink (with Wooster Woodruff Beman)
 * The Treviso Arithmetic
 * 1925: by René Descartes (1637) (with Marcia L. Latham)


 * Edited:
 * 1915: A Budget of Paradoxes by Augustus De Morgan


 * Wrote:
 * 1896: History of Modern Mathematics
 * 1900: The Teaching of Elementary Mathematics
 * 1908: Rara Arithmetica
 * 1909: The Teaching of Arithmetic (revised edition: 1913)
 * 1911: The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
 * 1912: The Teaching of Geometry
 * 1912: A Bibliography on the Teaching of Mathematics (with Charles Goldziher)
 * 1914: A History of Japanese Mathematics (with Yoshio Mikami)
 * 1919: Number Stories of Long Ago
 * 1923: Our Debt to Greece and Rome: Mathematics
 * 1923: History of Mathematics: Volume 1
 * 1925: History of Mathematics: Volume 2