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Samuel L. Greitzer (August 10, 1905 February 22, 1988) was an American
mathematician, the founding chairman of the United States of America Mathematical
Olympiad, and the publisher of the precollege mathematics journal Arbelos. He also
wrote the textbook Geometry Revisited together with H. S. M. Coxeter in 1967.
Born in Russia, Greitzer moved to the United States in 1906, graduated from
Stuyvesant High School, received his bachelor's degree in 1927 from City College of
New York, and later earned a Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. He held academic
positions at Yeshiva University, the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, Columbia University, and Rutgers
University.
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He died on February 22, 1988 in Metuchen, New J ersey.
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Richards, J oe; Crossfield, Don (2008), "Dear Professor Greitzer" (http://www.maa.org/publications
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