Halsted, George Bruce, 1853-1922

George Bruce Halsted (1853-1922) received his Bachelor's (1875) and Master's (1878) degrees from Princeton and his Ph.D. from John's Hopkins (1879). Following graduation, Halsted taught mathematics at Princeton until beginning his post at the University of Texas at Austin in 1884. He was a member of the University of Texas at Austin Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics (1884-1903) and later taught at St. John's College, Annapolis; Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, and Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) Greeley (1906-1914). Halsted explored the foundations of geometry and introduced Non-Euclidean geometry into the United States.

From the guide to the George Bruce Halsted's Géométrie Rationelle (MS 17), n.d., (University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries. Special Collections Dept.)

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