Background
Curtiss, David Raymond was born on January 12, 1878 in Derby, Connecticut, United States. Son of Hamilton Burton and Emily Wheeler (Curtis) Curtiss.
Curtiss, David Raymond was born on January 12, 1878 in Derby, Connecticut, United States. Son of Hamilton Burton and Emily Wheeler (Curtis) Curtiss.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity California, 1899, Master of Arts, 1901. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard, 1903, traveling fellow, 1903-1904. Studied École Normale Superieure, Paris France.
He served as president of the Mathematical Association of America from 1935 to 1936. He was also vice president of the American Mathematical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He earned a doctorate at Harvard University under Maxime Bôcher and West.F. Osgood in 1903.
He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at École Normale Supérieure in 1904.
In 1904, Curtiss taught at Yale University for one year. He then served as a professor at Northwestern University from 1905 to 1943, including 20 years as Chair of the Mathematics Department.
Curtiss authored textbooks on trigonometry and analytic geometry with Elton James Moulton. He also published the second Carus Mathematical Monograph, Analytic Functions of a Complex Variable.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (vice-president section A, 1921). Member American Mathematics Society (council, and vice-president), Mathematics Association America (president), Societe Mathematique de France, Circolo Mathematico di Palermo, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Sigrid Eckman, June 25, 1907 (deceased. Married second, Ruth C. Kneen, July 23, 1943. Children: John Hamilton, Margaret Eckman, Alice Judson.