Samuel Beatty (1881–1970) was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, taking the position in 1934.
In 1915, he graduated from the University of Toronto with a PhD and a dissertation entitled Extensions of Results Concerning the Derivatives of an Algebraic Function of a Complex Variable, with the help of his adviser, John Charles Fields.
[3] In 1926, he published a problem in the American Mathematical Monthly, which formed the genesis for the Beatty sequence.
[2] Beatty was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, taking the position in 1934.
[1] Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Walter Kohn, a student at the university while Beatty was a dean, expressed his appreciation in 1998 to the dean when accepting the prize for his development of the density functional theory.