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:

Percy John Daniell

Research Associate in Applied Mathmatics.

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Griffith Conrad Evans

Assistant Professor of Pure Mathematics

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Edgar Odell Lovett

President of the Institute and Professor of Mathematics

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_{Photos courtesy of Woodsen Research Center, Rice University, Photo Files.}