Early History

Math was one of the original departments dating from Rice's first academic year in 1912. Of the 9 faculty listed in the 1912-13 Rice Institute General Announcements, 3 were mathematicians:

Rice Mathematics Faculty 1912-13
	Percy John Daniell Research Associate in Applied Mathmatics
	Griffith Conrad Evans Assistant Professor of Pure Mathematics
	Edgar Odell Lovett President of the Institute and Professor of Mathematics

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