The twenty-seven lines upon the cubic surface ... by Archibald Henderson.

ARCHIBALD HENDERSON
VITA
The writer, Archibald Henderson, son of John Steele and Elizabeth
Brownrigg (Cain) Henderson, was born in 1877 at Salisbury, Rowan
County, North Carolina. Entering the University of North Carolina in
1894, he was graduated A.B. with high honor in 1898. From the same
institution he received the degree of A.M. in 1899, that of Ph.D. in 1902,
with doctoral thesis entitled "The Cone of the Normals and an Allied
Cone for Central Surfaces of the Second Degree" (Journal of the Elisha
Mitchell Scientific Society, Seventeenth Year, Part II, 1901-Chapel
Hill, N.C.).
In the University of North Carolina, the writer served as instructor
of mathematics, 1898-1902; as associate professor of mathematics,
1902-8; and since 1908 as professor of pure mathematics, the position he
now holds.
The writer pursued his work in advanced mathematics at the University of Chicago during four quarters (the summer of 1901 and the year
1902-3), where he held a fellowship in mathematics, and in 1910-11
at Cambridge University, England, the University of Berlin, at the
Sorbonne. In these institutions he attended lectures under Bolza,
Maschke, Dickson, Slaught, Laves; Hobson, Baker, Russell (Bertrand);
Schur, Schwarz; Picard, Goursat.
The writer has read mathematical papers before the American
Mathematical Society, the North Carolina Academy of Science, and the
Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, and has published scientific papers in
the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society and the American
Mathematical Monthly-notably, "The Derivation of the Brianchon
Configuration from Two Spatial Point Triads," "Harmonic Pairs in the
Complex Plane," " The Foundations of Geometry: An Historical Sketch."
In 1902, under the direction of Dr. L. E. Dickson, the writer began a
research on the subject of the lines on the cubic surface as a thesis for the
doctorate at Chicago. The research, thus begun, was eventually extended, and results embodied in the present monograph were published
by the Cambridge University Press, England, in 1911, as Tract No. 13 in
the series of "Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Physics."