Originally under John Daniel Runkle, mathematics at MIT was regarded as service teaching for engineers.
[1] Harry W Tyler succeeded Runkle after his death in 1902, and continued as its head until 1930.
Tyler had been exposed to modern European mathematics and was influenced by Felix Klein and Max Noether.
Norbert Wiener, famous for his contribution to the mathematics of signal processing, joined the MIT faculty in 1919.
Longtime faculty member Arthur Mattuck received several awards for his teaching of MIT undergraduates.