William Pitt Durfee (5 February 1855 – 17 December 1941) was an American mathematician who introduced

Durfee square In number theory, a Durfee square is an attribute of an integer partition. A partition of ''n'' has a Durfee square of size ''s'' if ''s'' is the largest number such that the partition contains at least ''s'' parts with values ≥ ''s''. An equival ...

s. He was a student of James Sylvester, and after obtaining his degree in 1883 he became a professor at Hobart college in 1884 and became dean in 1888.

Durfee House The Durfee House is a historic building that now serves as student housing for Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. It was originally built downtown as a land speculator's office during the nascence of European settlers in the ...

and Durfee Hall are named in his honor.

Publications

References

* * * *''Who Was Who in America: with World Notables. Volume 1'', by Marquis Who's Who, 1942.

External links

Biography
on HWS website
Durfee House
on HWS website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Durfee, William Pitt 1855 births 1941 deaths University of Michigan alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni 19th-century American mathematicians 20th-century American mathematicians People from Livonia, Michigan People from Geneva, New York Mathematicians from Michigan Mathematicians from New York (state)