In , we celebrated the 75th anniversary of our PhD Program. Read more about it here. The University of Georgia was segregated until Author: Thomas Brahana , Professor Emeritus, who also compiled the early data in the links above. Classes in the Franklin College, which much later became known as the University of Georgia, were first taught in Athens in The only descriptions of the log cabin days suggest that the first class on the first day was a mathematics class.
It is appropriate therefore, to trace the evolution of the role of mathematics and mathematicians in the development of the University during the last two centuries. The University, just as an individual, is a product of its heredity and its environment.
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The heredity of a university is at first transmitted from existing older institutions via the faculty who trained in them and as time goes on from its own operation.
The climate of the society which supports the university exerts the forces from the environment. The account which follows is divided into six generations. Each section begins with a brief summary of historical events which provided the underlying mood of the people who lived here.
The curriculum and its development, with special focus on mathematics, is briefly described. Next, the subject of the mathematical research is examined. Finally, short biographical accounts of some influential faculty members are given. The service to the University and the community at large is mentioned in these sketches. An individual who writes a history must, of necessity, adopt a point of view. Mine is that of a long time mathematics faculty member, who has been here through more than one fourth of the time described.
