Emily Kathryn Wyant (January 16, 1897 – July 16, 1942) was an American mathematician known as the founder of Kappa Mu Epsilon, a mathematical honor society focusing on undergraduate education.
She attended the University of Missouri on a part-time and summer basis while supporting herself as a school teacher, finally completing a bachelor's degree in education in 1921.
She became the national president of Sigma Delta Epsilon in 1926 and chaired the Missouri section of the Mathematical Association of America in 1927,[3] as its first female officer.
[6] During Wyant's time at Northeastern, she worked to transform the local mathematics club, founded three years before her arrival, into another national honor society, Kappa Mu Epsilon.
The society itself was officially founded in April 1931, and Wyant was elected as its first leader, under the title "President Pythagoras".