Department of Mathematics

Professor

Years at Brown

Chairperson

 

Alexis Caswell
(1799-1877)

1828-1863

-1863

  • Undergraduate class of 1822
  • President - 1868-1872

Benjamin Franklin Clarke
(1831-1903)

1863-1904

1863-1890

  • Undergraduate class of 1863
  • President pro tempore in 1896-1897 & President ad interim in1899

Nathaniel French Davis
(1847-1921)

1874-1915

1890-1915

  • Undergraduate class of 1870

Roland G. D. Richardson 
(1878-1949)

1907-1948

1915-1942

  • Dean of Graduate Department - 1926-1927
  • Dean of Graduate School - 1929-1948
  • Acting Vice President - 1928-1929 

Clarence Raymond Adams
(1898-1965)

1923-1965

1942-1960

  • Undergraduate class of 1918

David Gale 
(1921-2008)

1950-1965

1960-1965

 

Wendell Fleming 
(1928-2023)

1958-2009

1965-1968

  • Chair of the Division of Applied Mathematics - 1982-1985 & 1991-1994

Bruno Harris

1961-

1968

 

John Wermer 
(1927-2022)

1954-1994

1968-1971

 

Allan H. Clark

1961-1975

1971-1973

 

Robert D. Accola 
(1929-2011)

1960-1996

1974

 

Jonathan D. Lubin

1967-2000

1975-1978

 

Michael Rosen

 

1978-1979

 

Andrew Browder 
(1931-2019)

 

1979-1982

 

Thomas Banchoff

1967-2013

1982-1985

 

William Fulton

1970-1987

1985-1986

 

Michael Rosen

1962-2006

1986-1988

 

Walter Strauss

1966-2019

1988-1991

 

Robert D. Accola 
(1929-2011)

1960-1996

1992-1994

 

Walter Craig 
(1953-2019)

1988-2000

1997-2000

 

Joseph Silverman

1988-present

2001-2004

  • Undergraduate class of 1977

Jill Pipher

1989-present

2005-2008

 

Jeffrey Hoffstein

1989-present

2009-2013

  • Tamarkin Assistant Professor - 1980-1982

Jeffrey Brock

2004-2018

2013-2017

 

Dan Abramovich

2003-present

2017-2018

 

Jeffrey Hoffstein

1989-present

2019-2024

 

Benoit Pausader

2015-present

2024-present

  • Tamarkin Assistant Professor - 2008-2011