William Charles Brenke (April 12, 1874,

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– 1964) was an American mathematician who introduced Brenke polynomials and wrote several undergraduate textbooks. He received his PhD in mathematics at Harvard under

Maxime Bôcher Maxime Bôcher (August 28, 1867 – September 12, 1918) was an American mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as ''Trigonometry'' and ''Analytic Geometry'' ...

. Brenke taught at the

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mathematics department from 1908 to 1944 and was chair of the department from 1934 to 1944. He retired in 1943 but his successor, Ralph Hull, was put on official leave to do war work and returned from leave in 1945.General History - Department of Mathematics - University of Nebraska–Lincoln
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1874 births 1964 deaths 20th-century American mathematicians Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty Emigrants from the German Empire to the United States {{US-mathematician-stub