Ellis Stouffer

Ellis Bagley Stouffer (7 November 1884, Melbourne, Iowa – 24 November 1965, Lawrence, Kansas) was an American mathematician specializing in projective differential geometry.

Stouffer received bachelor's and master's degrees from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.

[1] In 1911 he received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under Ernest Julius Wilczynski with thesis Invariants of Linear Differential Equations, with Applications to Ruled Surfaces in Five-Dimensional Space.

In 1946–1951 he was dean of the University during its academic expansion program after World War II.

[4] At the University of Kansas, the E. B. Stouffer Professorship of Mathematics was established in his honor.

Ellis Stouffer (standing left) and Ms. Stouffer (sitting left) at the ICM 1932