Mr. Raymond Wilder was born in Palmer, Massachusetts in1892. In the year of 1914, Wilder joined Brown University, where he eventually earned a master’s degree in actuarial mathematics. “After two years at Ohio State University, Wilder joined the faculty of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where he remained until his retirement in 1967,” (Lib.utexas).
Before Wilder’s death in 1982, he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and served as President of both the American Mathematical Society (1955-1956) and the Mathematical trained in set-theoretic topology” (Lib.utexas). “Wilder’s course on the foundation of mathematics, published in his Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics (1952), led to an interest in the history of mathematics. The results of his historical studies using anthropological ideas appeared in Evolution of Mathematics Concepts (1968) and Mathematics as a Cultural System (1981).
References:
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00247/cah-00247.html
http://stills.nap.edu/html/biomems/rwilder.html
Written by Brad Dybing, 2003
Edited by Marcy L. Voelker, 2007