Arthur Byron Coble

Arthur Byron Coble
Arthur Byron Coble
Born	November 3, 1878; Williamstown, Pennsylvania, US
Died	December 8, 1966 (aged 88); Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Gettysburg College; Johns Hopkins University
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doctoral advisor	Frank Morley
Doctoral students	Josephine Chanler; Frances Harshbarger; Jessie Marie Jacobs; J. R. Musselman;

Arthur Byron Coble (November 3, 1878 – December 8, 1966) was an American mathematician. He did research on finite geometries and the group theory related to them, Cremona transformations associated with the Galois theory of equations, and the relations between hyperelliptic theta functions, irrational binary invariants, the Weddle surface and the Kummer surface. He was President of the American Mathematical Society from 1933 to 1934.

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