William Lloyd Garrison Williams (3 October 1888 - 31 January 1976) was an American-Canadian Quaker and mathematician, known for the founding of the Canadian Mathematical Society and overseeing Elbert Frank Cox's doctorate in mathematics.
[4] He wrote his Ph.D. on Fundamental Systems of Formal Modular Seminvariants of the Binary Cubic, published in 1920.
He then taught briefly at Gettysburg College and William and Mary, before relocating to Cornell.
[1] In 1924, Williams moved again, this time to teach at McGill, to develop their graduate program.
[1] Williams supervised the Ph.D. of Elbert Frank Cox, the first African American to get a mathematics doctorate, during his time at Cornell.
[9] He additionally helped with the purchasing of a building for Montreal friends to use as a meeting house, although it is no longer in use.