Math was one of the original departments dating from Rice's first academic year in 1912. Of the 9 faculty listed in the 1912-13 Rice Institute General Announcements, 3 were mathematicians:
Percy John Daniell
Research Associate in Applied Mathmatics
Griffith Conrad Evans
Assistant Professor of
Pure Mathematics
Edgar Odell Lovett
President of the Institute and
Professor of Mathematics
Photos courtesy of Woodsen Research Center, Rice University, Photo Files.
