Background
Bennett, Albert Arnold was born on June 2, 1888 in Yokohama, Japan. Son of Albert Arnold and Mela Isabelle (Barrows) Bennett.
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Albert Arnold Bennett
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Came to the United States in 1902. Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Brown University, 1910, Sc.M., 1911. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton, 1915.
Studied university of Paris, Gottingen, Bologna and Chicago.
Career
One daughter, Betsy Bennett Miller. Instructor Princeton University, 1914-1916. Adjunct professor University of Texas, 1916-1921, associate professor, 1921-1925.
Professor and head of department, Lehigh University, 1925-1927.
Professor mathematics, Brown University, from 1927. Editor in chief, Mathematics Monthly, 1923.
Mathematics editor Prentice-Hall, Incorporated. Student 1st O.T.C., Leon Springs, Texas, and Fort Monroe, Virginia.
Commissioned captain C.A.R.C., August 15, 1917.
Translations to ordnance, June 1918. Honorary discharged January 15, 1919. Mathematics and dynamics expert, Ordnance Corps, June 1919-September 1921.
Major Ordnance Corps, A.U.S., 1942-1946, lieutenant colonel, 1946.
Achievements
Membership
Member American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association America (trustee 1922, vice president 1925, 33), American Academy Arts and Sciences, Progressive Education Association (advisory council, 1933), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association University professors, American Society Engineering Education, Association Computing Machines, Association Symbolic Logic (council), 1935, Association Teachers of Mathematics New England (president 1941), National Council Teachers of Mathematics, Institute of Mathematics Statistics, Rhode Island School Design (Corporation. Member), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Delta Upsilon.
Connections
Married Velma McAfee Ely, June 17, 1922.
