Show DEATH OF MAN WHO VHO WAS VAS TO WELCOME TArT TAFT Professor sor Ir in Irving head hend of tho the department of ot mathematics at the University of California for foi twenty twenty- lI years rs active VO head of the university university uni cr f sity ity rJ during tho absence in iu in tho the cast east of President cut Benjamin Ide and desi designated to have havo received rca Pres President dent Taft raft t on behalf of tho the university uni died in ini ina in ina a i sanitarium of poisoning ITo Ho had been berm in in the sanitarium since Fresi- Fresi lOut dent Wheeler left for Berlin three weeks ago no President bam was born December De Do- comber cember 10 10 1847 1817 Ho lIo was vas graduated from front Harvard in and took tok toka a a P post graduate c course courso urso at Johns John Hopkins univ university rs ty after aCter which in 1880 ho lie went to Leipsig horo ho remained re ro re- re until 1882 In that year he was 33 elected to the tho head of the thc dopart depart ment of m mathematics in the tho University Uni of California in which capacity h hf hc served to the time of his death Professor ha was a of the tho American Mathematical society of ot which he lie was TaR at one timo an officer Ho contributed frequently to mathematical mathematical mathe mathe- journals and wrote several RC books on mathematics one of which an j algebra bra iR is in genci-al genci ll use tiso O in in the high of ot tins state Ho lie is survived cd by to lis iz Jt j two dau daughters and aid a BOD son |