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William Woolsey Johnson

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American mathematician, who was one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society

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According to Wikipedia, William Woolsey Johnson was an American mathematician, who was one of the founders of the American Mathematical Society. Life and work Johnson, son of a farmer of Tioga County, New York, studied at Yale University where he received his BA in 1862. After two years serving in the Nautical Almanac Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he began his academic career as assistant professor in the Naval Academy in Newport, Rhode Island, but soon transferred to Annapolis, Maryland, from 1864 to 1869. In 1870 he was appointed professor of mathematics at Kenyon College and since 1872 at St. John's College . In 1881 he returned to the Naval Academy as full professor where he remained until his retirement in 1921.

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