Ralph Palmer Agnew

Ralph Palmer Agnew (December 29, 1900 — October 16, 1986) was an American mathematician.

Agnew was born in Poland, Ohio, and did his undergraduate studies at Allegheny College. After completing a master's degree at Iowa State College he moved to Cornell University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1930. He was appointed to the Cornell faculty in 1931. He chaired the mathematics department at Cornell from 1940 to 1950, and was responsible for bringing William Feller and Mark Kac to Cornell.

His research concerned summability of series; he also wrote textbooks on calculus and differential equations.

References

• Ralph Palmer Agnew at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Ralph Palmer Agnew, obituary by G. Roger Livesay, Anil Nerode, and Wolfgang H. Fuchs