AMS Presidents: A Timeline

28. Theophil Henry Hildebrandt (1888-1980)

President 1945-1946

Hildebrandt spent most of his career at the University of Michigan (1909-1957), where he served as chair of the mathematics department from 1934 until his retirement in 1957. He did important work in functional analysis and integration theory, and in 1923 gave the first general proof of the principle of uniform boundedness for Banach spaces. He is honored by the T.H. Hildebrandt Assistant Professorships in the University of Michigan mathematics department.

• History of the Second Fifty Years: American Mathematical Society, 1939-1988 , by Everett Pitcher (AMS, 1988), which includes AMS Presidents from 1939-1988 (and reports on all aspects of the Society during the period)
• Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Theophil Henry Hildebrandt Papers, 1887-1978 in the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan