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William Claytor
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Awards & Degrees Earned
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- A.B. and M.A.
- Harrison Scholarship in Mathematics
- Harrison Fellowship in Mathematics
About William S. Claytor
William Claytor
by: Shayla Cunningham
William Claytor was born on January 4, 1908 and died in 1967. Claytor was born in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the third African American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics, but the first African American to publish mathematics research. William earned his A.B. and M.A. from Howard University and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1933.
William's Theorem
"a Peano continuum K is homeomorphic to a subset of the surface of a sphere if and only if it contains neither a primitive skew curve nor a topological image of either of the..."
Claytor accepted a teaching position at West Virginia State College where he remained for three years. In 1937, Claytor was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship and pursued post-doctoral studies at the University of Michigan. He had great promise as a researcher in mathematics. When a position opened, however, the University of Michigan would not offer it to him. Apparently they were afraid of the possible reaction.