The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bocher, Maxime

BOCHER, bo'shā, Maxime, American mathematician: b. Boston, 28 Aug. 1867. He was educated at Harvard and Göttingen and became instructor 1891, assistant professor 1894, and professor of mathematics in Harvard 1904; 1908-10 he was president of the American Mathematical Society. His published works include &lsquo;Introduction to Higher Algebra&rsquo; (1907); &lsquo;Introduction to the Study of Integral Equations&rsquo; (1909); and he was one of the editors of the &lsquo;Annals of Mathematics,&rsquo; of the &lsquo;Transactions&rsquo; of the American Mathematical Society, and collaborator on the &lsquo;Encyclopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften.&rsquo;