Background
Emch, Arnold was born on March 24, 1871 in Hessigkofen, Switzerland. Son of Albrecht and Maria (Zurbuchen) Emch.
assistant mathematician professor
Emch, Arnold was born on March 24, 1871 in Hessigkofen, Switzerland. Son of Albrecht and Maria (Zurbuchen) Emch.
Cantonal College of Solothurn, 1886-1890. Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, 1890-1893. Came to the United States, 1893.
Doctor of Philisophy, University of Kansas, 1895.
In the late 1890s until 1905 he was an assistant professor of graphic mathematics in the school of engineering at the Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University). In 1905 Emch became a professor of mathematics at the Kantonsschule in Solothurn, Switzerland. In 1908 Emch gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rome.
From 1911 to 1939 he was a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Member American Mathematics Society, Sigma Xi, Swiss Mathematics Society, Swiss Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Swiss Alpine.
Married Hilda Walters, of Lawrence, Kansas, August 31, 1895. Children: Walter, Arnold Frederick, Karl.