Background
Agnew was born in Poland, Ohio, and did his undergraduate studies at Allegheny College.
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Ralph Agnew
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Cornell University.
Career
After completing a master"s degree at Iowa State College he moved to Cornell University, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1930. He was appointed to the Cornell faculty in 1931. He chaired the mathematics department at Cornell from 1940 to 1950, and was responsible for bringing William Feller and Mark Kac to Cornell.
His research concerned summability of series.
He also wrote textbooks on calculus and differential equations.
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United States