Edwin Earl Floyd (8 May 1924, in Eufaula, Alabama – 9 December 1990) was an American mathematician, specializing in topology (especially cobordism theory).
[1] He was in the academic year 1948–1949 an instructor at Princeton University and became in 1949 a member of the faculty of the University of Virginia, where in the 1960s he collaborated with Pierre Conner in research on cobordism theory.
In 1974 he became the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in 1981 the vice-president and provost of the university.
In the academic years 1958/59 and 1963/64 he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study.
In 1962 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm and gave a talk Some connections between cobordism and transformation groups.