Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 1919 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 1919Gabriel marcus green was born in the city of New York on October 19, 1891. He died on January 24, 1919, at Cam bridge, Massachusetts. In this brief span oi years he has won enduring fame. In spite of his extreme youth, we mourn in him not the promise of a genius unfulfilled, but the sad untimely loss of a great leader of proven strength whose power and insight had been fully tested, and whose actual achievements can never perish.Green graduated from Public School N o. 4 of New York in 1904 as valedictorian of his class. He then entered the high school department of the College of the City of New York, and graduated from the College in 1911 at the head of his class. In 1909 he received the Belden Mathematical Prize, in 1909 and 1910 the Pell Medal for the highest rank in all subjects, and in 1910 and 1911 the Kenyon Prize for distinction in pure and applied mathematics. He then entered Columbia University as a graduate student, received the degree of Master of Arts m 1912, and the doctor's degree m 1913. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and of Sigma Xi.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.