William A. Luby

Fulltime: 1933-1946 Chair 1933-1946 M.A. 1920, Mathematics, University of Kansas B.A. 1905, Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas

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• Picture From: KCU Yearbook 1936-1937

• Taught Mathematics and Astronomy

• Before KCU: Head of the Department of Mathematics at the Kansas City Polytechnic Institute (which opened in 1915), and later, Head of the Department of Mathematics in the Junior College of Kansas City (the Polytechnic Institute became the Junior College in 1919, and was the first two-year college in the US to award the Associate's Degree.)

• Textbooks:
  • 1909, First Course in Algebra, 1917 Preface, Contents, (with Herbert E. Hawkes, and Frank C. Touton); revised 1910, 1917
  • 1911, Second Course in Algebra, (with Herbert E. Hawkes, and Frank C. Touton); revised 1918
  • 1922, Solid Geometry, (with Herbert E. Hawkes, and Frank C. Touton)
  • 1926, New Second Course in Algebra, Preface, Contents, (with Herbert E. Hawkes, and Frank C. Touton)
  • 1929, Plane Geometry, (with Herbert E. Hawkes, and Frank C. Touton)

• Luby wrote articles for the University Review: "The Systems of the Stars", in Vol. II, Fall 1935, No. 1, pp. 15-20, and "The Conquest of Space and Time" in Vol. IV, Spring 1938, No. 3, starting on p. 214.
  [Note: In 1944 the University Review was renamed the "University of Kansas City Review", and in 1971 became "New Letters".]

• Luby wrote articles for Popular Astronomy magazine, including "On the Cause of Jupiter's Belts" (Nov. 1929), "Ocean Currents" (1938, Vol. 46, pp. 128-132), and "The Cause of Sun-spots" (Feb. 1945, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 49-62).

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• UKC Yearbook 1935-1936: Delta X 1936
  
• UKC Yearbook 1936-1937: Delta X 1937
  
• UKC Yearbook 1943-1944: Delta X 1944 (first)
  
  
• UKC Yearbook 1943-1944: Delta X 1944 (second)
  

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