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William Edward Story was an American mathematician, who taught at Johns Hopkins University and Clark University.
Background
William was born on April 29, 1850 at Boston, Massachussets, United States. He was the eldest son of Isaac and Elizabeth B. (Woodberry) Story. He also was descended from Elisha Story, who came from England to Boston about 1700. Joseph Story, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court for many years, was a brother of his grandfather; and his great-grandfather, Dr. Elisha Story of Bunker Hill, was one of the "Indians" of the Boston Tea Party.
Education
After graduation from Harvard in 1871, Story spent three and a half years in European study, particularly with the mathematicians Weierstrass and Kummer at Berlin and with C. G. Neumann at Leipzig, where he received the degree of Ph. D. in 1875 with a dissertation entitled On the Algebraic Relations Existing between the Polars of a Binary Quantic (1875).
Career
After spending the year 1875-76 as tutor in mathematics at Harvard, he went to the Johns Hopkins University, where he was at first associate in mathematics and then associate professor until 1889.
The first seven years of this period were the most notable in the history of American mathematics up to that time, because of the presence at Baltimore of J. J. Sylvester, through whose influence the American Journal of Mathematics was founded, with Sylvester as editor-in-chief and Story as "associate editor in charge" (1878 - 82). In this journal he published most of his mathematical papers, but others appeared in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Mathematische Annalen, Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine (July 1910), and the Official Report of the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools for 1903.
He founded, edited, and published the Mathematical Review at Worcester, Massachussets, between 1896 and 1899, but only 208 pages, in two numbers and part of a third, were actually issued. He was also joint editor (1899) of Clark University, 1889-1899, the decennial celebration volume.
From 1889 until 1921, when he became professor emeritus, Story was professor at Clark University. Twelve doctoral dissertations in the fields of geometry and algebra were completed under his direction.
His admirable address before this club in 1918, Omar Khayy. .. m as a Mathematician, was printed privately in book form, with Story's portrait, in 1919. Among the eighty men listed as the chief research mathematicians of the United States in 1903, Story was ranked by his colleagues as fifteenth.
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Membership
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1876) and of the National Academy of Sciences (1908), as well as a member of the Omar Khayyam Club of America (1924 - 27).
Connections
He was married June 20, 1878, to Mary Harrison of Baltimore, and they had one son.