Lester R. Ford

Lester Randolph Ford senior ( born October 25, 1886 in Missouri, USA, † November 11, 1967 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA ) was an American mathematician and father of Lester Randolph Ford (Jr.).

Ford graduated from Missouri State University with a bachelor's degree in 1911 and from Harvard University with a master's degree in 1913 and his doctorate in maxim Bôcher 1917. He was at the Rice Institute, from the late 1930s, Professor at the Armour Institute of Technology, from 1940, the Illinois Institute of Technology was.

From 1942 to 1946 he was editor of the American Mathematical Monthly, and president of the Mathematical Association of America by 1947 until 1948.

According to him, the Ford circle and the Lester Randolph Ford Award are named.