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Virgil Snyder (1869 - 1950)) was an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.

In 1886 Snyder matriculated at Iowa State College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1889. He attended Cornell University as a graduate student from 1890 to 1892, leaving to study mathematics in Germany on an Erastus W. Brooks fellowship. In 1895 he received a doctorate from the University of Göttingen under Klein. In 1895 Snyder returned to Cornell as an instructor, becoming an assistant professor in 1905 and a full professor in 1910. In 1938 he retired as professor emeritus, having supervised 38 doctoral students.

Snyder did reseach on configurations of ruled surfaces and Cremona and birational transformations^[1]

References

^ Coble, A. B. (1950). "Virgil Snyder, 1869-1950". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (5): 468–471. MR 1565227.

External links

O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Virgil Snyder", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
Virgil Snyder at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
Cornell Math - Early History

[1] Coble, A. B. (1950). "Virgil Snyder, 1869-1950". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 56 (5): 468–471. MR 1565227.

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