William Henry Roever (16 May 1874, St. Louis – 31 January 1951, St. Louis) was an American applied mathematician.
Roever received in 1897 a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis.
He received an A.M. in 1904[1] and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1906 from Harvard University with advisor Maxime Bôcher and thesis Brilliant points.
[2] Roever taught astronomy from 1899 to 1901 at Washington University in St. Louis and mathematics from 1905 to 1908 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[1] He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1924 in Toronto.