William Caspar Graustein

William Caspar Graustein (15 November 1888 – 22 January 1941) was an American mathematician. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1910^[1] and later became an instructor at Harvard University. In 1921, he married Mary Curtis Graustein (1884—1972), who was the first American woman to earn a mathematics Ph.D. (1917) from Radcliffe College.^[2]

William Caspar Graustein
Left to right, upper: Graustein, Smith, lower: Rellich, Mary Graustein, at the ICM, Zürich 1932.
Born	(1888-11-15)15 November 1888 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died	22 January 1941(1941-01-22) (aged 52) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University
Spouse	Mary Florence (nee Curtis)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Eduard Study

He died in an automobile accident, at the age of 52. At the time, Graustein was professor of mathematics and assistant dean at Harvard.^[2]

Bibliography

Some of his books and papers are:^[3]

• The scientific work of Joseph Lipka
• Applicability with preservation of both curvatures
• Extensions of the four-vertex theorem
• Introduction to higher geometry
• Differential Geometry MacMillan Company 1935. Republished Dover 1966 2006.