Ernest Preston Lane (November 28, 1886, Russellville, Tennessee – October 1969) was an American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry.
Later in life, he went on to receive his master's degree from the University of Virginia in 1913.
[1] He taught mathematics at several academic institutions before receiving in 1918 from the University of Chicago his PhD under Ernest Julius Wilczynski with thesis Conjugate systems with indeterminate axis curves.
[2] Lane served as Instructor of Mathematics at Rice University from 1918 to 1919.
[1] His doctoral students included Alice T. Schafer, Sun Guangyuan and Abba Verbeck Newton.