Career
An Episcopalian from an old Virginia family, he taught in the mathematics department of the University of Notre Dame. He translated Ptolemy"s Almagest, a 2nd-century book on astronomy, the 13 books of Euclid"s Elements, Apollonius" works on conic sections, and some works of Plato, and Saint Augustine. He contributed a celebrated foreword to the Bollingen Series 1944 reprint of the Thomas Taylor translation of Plato"s Timaeus and Critias.
He also wrote a book titled The concept of matter in Descartes and Leibniz and one titled Number systems, introduction to Euclid book V, and to the theory of limits.