1936
Dr. Freyd is born in Evanston, Illinois to Paul Robert and Pauline Margaret Freyd.
1952
Dr. Freyd becomes an art teacher at Conti Art School in Providence, Rhode Island.
1954
Dr. Freyd becomes a carpentry teacher at Camp Cragged Mountain Farm in Freedom, New Hampshire.
1956
Dr. Freyd becomes an instructor in statistics at Batton, Barton, Durstine and Osborn in New York, New York.
1957
Dr. Freyd becomes an assistant instructor of mathematics at Brown University.
1958
Dr. Freyd graduates magna cum laude from Brown University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts. He then becomes instructor in mathematics for the National Science Foundation Program at Brown University.
1959
Dr. Freyd graduates from Princeton University as a Woodrow Wilson fellow, receives a Master of Arts. He then becomes an assistant instructor in mathematics at Princeton University.
1960
Dr. Freyd receives a Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University. He also serves as an instructor for the Academy Potential Project at Brown University and later becomes a J.F. Ritt Instructor in Mathematics at Columbia University.
1962
Dr. Freyd joins the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania.
1964
Dr. Freyd authors “Abelian Categories.”
1968
Dr. Freyd serves as a teacher in dramatics at the American School in Shiraz, Iran.
1970
Dr. Freyd founds the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra.
1971
Dr. Freyd travels to Australia as a Fulbright Scholar.
1982
Dr. Freyd is appointed chairman of the Graduate Group on Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania.
1987
Dr. Freyd becomes a professor of computer information science at the University of Pennsylvania.
1988
Dr. Freyd becomes editor of Theoretical Computer Science.
1989
Dr. Freyd becomes editor of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science.
1990
Dr. Freyd co-authors “Categories, Allegories.”
1991
Dr. Freyd becomes editor of the Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications.
1993
Dr. Freyd is appointed director of the Laboratory for Logic and Computation.