Biography:

Mathematician; university professor; inventor. Born January 21, 1904, Bradley Dam, Escambia County, Ala. Parents–Battle C. and Alice Clements Mancill. Married–Dora Mae Dalee, September 2, 1929.  Children–three. Education– B.A., University of Alabama, 1926; M.A., 1927; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1934. Employed by University of Alabama, 1927-1966; director, Redstone Arsenal Graduate Institute, Huntsville, 1951-1954; head, Mathematics Department, University of Alabama, 1955-66.  Recognized for his expository writing by the Mathematical Association of America. Died July 30, 1971.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service; obituary.

Publication(s):

Contemporary Mathematics. Boston; Allyn and Bacon, 1960.

Elementos de Mathematica Moderna. Buenos Aires; Kapelusz, 1969.

Introductory College Mathematics. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1958.

Joint_Publication(s):

Algebra Elemental Moderna. Habana; Editorial Selecta, 1955.

Basic College Algebra. Boston; Allyn and Bacon, 1962.

Modern Analytical Trigonometry. New York; Dodd Mead, 1960.

Modern College Algebra. Boston; Allyn and Bacon, 1960.

Editor:

Summer Institute for Teachers of Science and Mathematics; June 5-August 18, 1961 report. University, Ala.; The University, 1961.