We had many black African Americas Mathematicians though out the decades. They became very important to the community, because they were black and that wasn’t just normal. Elbert F. Cox happened to be one the ones who was a mathematicians. Elbert F. Cox was born and raised in a college town in a racially mixed neighborhood, but at segregated schools. In fact his father, a school principal, had graduated from Evansville College and had done graduate work at Indiana University. Close knit and highly religious, the Cox family had a respect for learning that reflected the father's educational career. When young Elbert demonstrated unusual ability in high school mathematics and physics, he was directed toward Indiana University. Elbert Cox earned…show more content… When Cox's thesis advisor William Lloyd Garrison Williams realized that Cox had the chance to be recognized not only as the first Black in the United States, but as the first Black in the world to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics, he urged his student to send his thesis to a university in another country so that Cox's status in this regard would not be disputed. Universities in England and Germany turned Cox down, but Japan's Imperial University of San Dei accepted the dissertation. He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics just 39 years after Cornell gave its first Ph.D. in Mathematics…show more content… in Mathematics in the United States; in fact, in the world. When Williams realized that Cox had the chance to be recognized not only as the first Black in the United States, but as the first Black in the world to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics, he urged his student to send his thesis to a university in another country so that Cox's status in this regard would not be disputed. Universities in England and Germany turned Cox down (possible for reasons of race), but Japan's Imperial University of San Deigo accepted the
