Education
B. West. Jones received his Bachelor in 1923 from Grinell College, his Master of Arts in 1924 from Harvard University, and his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics in 1928 from the University of Chicago under L. East. Dickson.
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Jones was a mathematics professor at Cornell University from 1930 to 1948. At Cornell, he supervised the doctoral dissertations of four mathematicians: Irma Moses Reiner (1946), Irving Reiner (1947), Mary Dolciani (1947), and William J. LeVeque (1948). Jones was honored by being selected to write the Carus Monograph Number 10, entitled The Arithmetic Theory of Quadratic Forms.
In 1991 the Rocky Mountain section of the MAA honored the memory of B. West. Jones by naming their yearly Distinguished Teaching Award after him.
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Jones was a member of the University of Colorado Boulder faculty from 1948 to his retirement in 1971. He was chair of the mathematics department from 1949 to 1963.
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December 8, 1983 (aged 81)