WOMEN%20MATHEMATICIANS

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WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS

• BY MICHELLE QUINN

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Winifred Edgerton MerrillSeptember 24, 1862 -
September 6, 1951

• First American woman to receive a Ph.D in
  Mathematics (1886).
• Received her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1883
  and went on for her Ph.D from Columbia
  University.
• Computation of the orbit of the comet of 1883.
• Taught at many different institutions.
• Winifred Edgerton Merrill

Columbia University Homepage
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Emmy NoetherMarch 23, 1882 - April 14, 1935

• Granted the second degree to a woman in the field
  of mathematics.
• Originally from Germany, Noether ended up the
  United States when Hitler took over and WWII
  began.
• Noether taught at Bryn Mawr College until she
  died in 1935
• Known for opening the door for other women at
  Bryn Mawr..
• Emmy Noether

Bryn Mawr Homepage
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Mary Emily Sinclair1878-1955

• In 1908, Sinclair became the first woman to earn
  a Ph.D in Mathematics from the University of
  Chicago.
• Her dissertation, Concerning a Compound
  Discontinuous Solution in the Problem of the
  Surface of Revolution of Minimum Area, was
  published in the Annals of Mathematics, Vol 10
  (January 1909), pp55-80.
• Mary Emily Sinclair

University of Chicago Homepage
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