Walter Buckingham Carver (January 11, 1879, Town Hill, Fulton County, Pennsylvania – July 4, 1961, Ithaca, New York) was an American mathematician, noteworthy as the president of the Mathematical Association of America for a two-year term in 1939 and 1940.
[1] In 1906 joined the faculty of Cornell University and held a professorship there until he retired as professor emeritus in 1948.
At professor emeritus, he occasionally taught and counseled Cornell students and conducted summer sessions in mathematical programs.
As president, he was the successor to Aubrey J. Kempner and the predecessor of Raymond Woodard Brink.
[5] His contributions of problems and solutions to the American Mathematical Monthly spanned about 58 years, longer than any other contributor in his lifetime.