Edward Burr Van Vleck

He also received 1 July 1914 an honorary doctorate of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands).

He was the author of Theory of Divergent Series and Algebraic Continued Fractions (1903) and of several monographs in mathematical journals.

His son, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, was a notable physicist and received the Nobel Prize in 1977.

He began collecting around 1909, but became a serious collector in the late 1920s, when he acquired approximately 4,000 prints that had been owned by Frank Lloyd Wright.

[5] Van Vleck died at his home in Madison on June 2, 1943, and was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery.