William Caspar Graustein (15 November 1888 – 22 January 1941) was an American mathematician. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1910 and later became an instructor at Harvard University. In 1921, he married Mary Curtis Graustein (1884—1972), who was the first American woman to earn a mathematics Ph.D. (1917) from Radcliffe College.

He died in an automobile accident, at the age of 52. At the time, Graustein was professor of mathematics and assistant dean at Harvard.

William Caspar Graustein

Bibliography

Some of his books and papers are:

William Caspar Graustein

The scientific work of Joseph Lipka

Applicability with preservation of both curvatures

Extensions of the four-vertex theorem

Introduction to higher geometry

Differential Geometry MacMillan Company 1935. Republished Dover 1966 2006.

William Caspar Graustein

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1888 births

1941 deaths

20th-century American mathematicians

Harvard University alumni

Harvard University Department of Mathematics faculty

Harvard University faculty