Arthur S. (Arthur Stafford) Hathaway

Arthur Stafford Hathaway was an American mathematician, born on September 15, 1855, in Keeler, Michigan. He studied at Cornell University and earned his bachelor's degree in 1879, then taught mathematics for two years at Friends High School in Baltimore.

He later studied with the mathematician James Joseph Sylvester at Johns Hopkins University. Sources on his career place him at Cornell University and Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana, where his 1896 book A Primer of Quaternions identified him as a professor of mathematics.

Hathaway is remembered today mainly through his teaching and mathematical writing. Archival collections and library records also show that his papers, publications, and notes survived him, offering a small but valuable record of an American scholar working in mathematics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.