Louis Lazarus Silverman (21 April 1884 – 17 October 1967) was an American mathematician, the first person to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an academic institution in the state of Missouri.
[1][2] Born in a village in Lithuania, Silverman moved with his parents to the United States when he was eight years old.
[3] From 1910 to 1918 he was a faculty member in the department of mathematics at Cornell University, where he worked with Wallie Abraham Hurwitz on divergent series and summability methods.
[1] He also taught at Tel Aviv University (where he gave lectures in Hebrew), the University of Houston, and South Texas College.
[4] Silverman was an amateur violinist, and his son, Raphael Hillyer Silverman, became a famous viola soloist.