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Joseph Dennis

was born 119 years ago

11 April 1905

Joseph James Dennis was the eleventh African American to be awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics. He served as the chair of the department of mathematics at Clark College from 1930 to 1974. From 1971 to 1977 he was Fuller E Calloway Chair of Mathematics at Albany State College.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Dennis/