Arnold Dresden

After matriculating for three years at the University of Amsterdam he used tuition money in 1903 to book passage on a ship to New York City.

Two years later, after saving money from working at various jobs, he enrolled in the graduate program at the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1909 under the direction of Oskar Bolza with thesis The Second Derivatives of the Extremal Integral.

While at Wisconsin Arnold Dresden was active in and served as secretary of, the Chicago Section of the American Mathematical Society.

A recurring theme was his belief that abstract concepts can be grasped by young people, which he preached in his 1936 book, An Invitation to Mathematics.

[12] He also wrote three textbooks and translated van der Waerden’s classic Science Awakening from Dutch into English.