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Timeline of women in mathematics in the United States

January 01, 1970

There is a long history of women in mathematics in the United States. All women mentioned here are American unless otherwise noted.

Timeline edit

19th Century edit

  • 1829: The first public examination of an American girl in geometry was held.[1]
  • 1886: Winifred Edgerton Merrill became the first American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, which she earned from Columbia University.[2]

20th Century edit

1970s edit

  • 1970: Mina Rees became the first female president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[10]
  • 1971:
    • Mary Ellen Rudin constructed the first Dowker space.[11]
    • The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) was founded. It is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences. It is incorporated in the state of Massachusetts.[12]
    • The American Mathematical Society established its Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences (JCW), which later became a joint committee of multiple scholarly societies.[13]
  • 1973: Jean Taylor published her dissertation on "Regularity of the Singular Set of Two-Dimensional Area-Minimizing Flat Chains Modulo 3 in R3" which solved a long-standing problem about length and smoothness of soap-film triple function curves.[14]
  • 1974: Joan Birman published the book Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups. It has become a standard introduction, with many of today's researchers having learned the subject through it.[15]
  • 1975–1977: Marjorie Rice, who had no formal training in mathematics beyond high school, discovered three new types of tessellating pentagons and more than sixty distinct tessellations by pentagons.[16]
  • 1975: Julia Robinson became the first female mathematician elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[17]
  • 1979:

1980s edit

1990s edit

21st Century edit

See also edit

Timeline of women in mathematics

References edit

  1. ^ Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony; Matilda Joslyn Gage; Ida Husted Harper, eds. (1889). History of Woman Suffrage: 1848–1861, Volume 1. Susan B. Anthony. p. 36. Retrieved 2011-04-18.
  2. ^ Susan E. Kelly & Sarah A. Rozner (28 February 2012). "Winifred Edgerton Merrill:"She Opened the Door"" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 59 (4). Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Mildred Leonora Sanderson". agnesscott.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h "Prizes, Awards, and Honors for Women Mathematicians". agnesscott.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  5. ^ "Euphemia Lofton Haynes, first African American woman mathematician". math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  6. ^ "Gertrude Mary Cox". agnesscott.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  7. ^ "How Gladys West uncovered the 'Hidden Figures' of GPS". GPS World. 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
  8. ^ Mary L. Boas (1966). Mathematical methods in the physical sciences. Wiley. ISBN 9780471084174.
  9. ^ Spector, Donald (1999). "Book Reviews". American Journal of Physics. 67 (2): 165–169. doi:10.1119/1.19216.
  10. ^ "Mina Rees". agnesscott.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  11. ^ "New Zealand Mathematical Societu Newsletter Number 84, April 2002". Massey.ac.nz. Retrieved 2017-06-20.
  12. ^ "About AWM - AWM Association for Women in Mathematics". Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  13. ^ "JCW-Math | Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences". jcwmath.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  14. ^ "Jean Taylor". agnesscott.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  15. ^ "Interview with Joan Birman" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 54 (1). 4 December 2006. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  16. ^ Doris Schattschneider. . britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca. Archived from the original on 2016-08-13. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  17. ^ a b "Profiles of Women in Mathematics: Julia Robinson". awm-math.org. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  18. ^ Oakes, E.H. (2007). Encyclopedia of World Scientists. Facts On File, Incorporated. ISBN 9781438118826.
  19. ^ . University of North Carolina at Asheville, Department of Mathematics. Archived from the original on 2014-01-11. Retrieved 2013-07-13..
  20. ^ Riddle, Larry (April 5, 2013). "Biographies of Women Mathematicians | Doris Schattschneider". Agnes Scott College. Retrieved 2013-07-13.
  21. ^ "Gloria Ford Gilmer". math.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  22. ^ Rimer, Sara (10 October 2008). "Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
  23. ^ "Duke Magazine-Where Are They Now?-January/February 2010". dukemagazine.duke.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  24. ^ "Melanie Wood: The Making of a Mathematician - Cogito". cogito.cty.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  25. ^ "2003 Morgan Prize" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 51 (4). 26 February 2004. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  26. ^ "Math Forum @ Drexel: Congratulations, Alison!". mathforum.org. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
  27. ^ Short vita, retrieved 2016-07-04.
  28. ^ "UZH - Fields Medal Winner Artur Avila Appointed Full Professor at the University of Zurich". Media.uzh.ch. 2018-07-24. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  29. ^ Joshipura, Kaumudi Jinraj (February 2017). "CV" (PDF). Harvard School of Public Health.
  30. ^ "Kaumudi Joshipura". Harvard School of Public Health. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  31. ^ Change, Kenneth (March 19, 2019). "Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Receive Abel Prize in Mathematics". New York Times. Retrieved 19 March 2019.

Further reading edit

  • A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents' Perspectives, by Lenore Blum (1991)

January 01, 1970
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There is a long history of women in mathematics in the United States All women mentioned here are American unless otherwise noted Contents 1 Timeline 1 1 19th Century 1 2 20th Century 1 2 1 1970s 1 2 2 1980s 1 2 3 1990s 1 3 21st Century 2 See also 3 References 4 Further readingTimeline edit19th Century edit 1829 The first public examination of an American girl in geometry was held 1 1886 Winifred Edgerton Merrill became the first American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics which she earned from Columbia University 2 20th Century edit 1913 Mildred Sanderson earned her PhD for a thesis that included an important theorem about modular invariants 3 1927 Anna Pell Wheeler became the first woman to present a lecture at the American Mathematical Society Colloquium 4 1943 Euphemia Haynes became the first African American woman to earn a Ph D in mathematics which she earned from Catholic University of America 5 1949 Gertrude Mary Cox became the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute 6 1956 Gladys West began collecting data from satellites at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division Her calculations directly impacted the development of accurate GPS systems 7 1962 Mina Rees became the first woman to win the Mathematical Association of America s highest honor the Yueh Gin Gung and Dr Charles Y Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics 4 1966 Mary L Boas published Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences which was still widely used in college classrooms as of 1999 8 9 1970s edit 1970 Mina Rees became the first female president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 10 1971 Mary Ellen Rudin constructed the first Dowker space 11 The Association for Women in Mathematics AWM was founded It is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences It is incorporated in the state of Massachusetts 12 The American Mathematical Society established its Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences JCW which later became a joint committee of multiple scholarly societies 13 1973 Jean Taylor published her dissertation on Regularity of the Singular Set of Two Dimensional Area Minimizing Flat Chains Modulo 3 in R3 which solved a long standing problem about length and smoothness of soap film triple function curves 14 1974 Joan Birman published the book Braids Links and Mapping Class Groups It has become a standard introduction with many of today s researchers having learned the subject through it 15 1975 1977 Marjorie Rice who had no formal training in mathematics beyond high school discovered three new types of tessellating pentagons and more than sixty distinct tessellations by pentagons 16 1975 Julia Robinson became the first female mathematician elected to the National Academy of Sciences 17 1979 Dorothy Lewis Bernstein became the first female president of the Mathematical Association of America 18 Mary Ellen Rudin became the first woman to present the MAA s Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures intended to showcase skilled expositors and enrich the understanding of instructors of college level mathematics 4 1980s edit 1981 Doris Schattschneider became the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine a refereed bimonthly publication of the Mathematical Association of America 19 20 1983 Julia Robinson became the first female president of the American Mathematical Society 17 and the first female mathematician to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship 4 1988 Doris Schattschneider became the first woman to present the MAA s J Sutherland Frame Lectures 4 1990s edit 1992 Gloria Gilmer became the first woman to deliver a major National Association of Mathematicians lecture it was the Cox Talbot address 21 1995 Margaret Wright became the first female president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 4 1996 Joan Birman became the first woman to receive the MAA s Chauvenet Prize an annual award for expository articles 4 1998 Melanie Wood became the first female American to make the U S International Math Olympiad Team She won silver medals in the 1998 and 1999 International Mathematical Olympiads 22 21st Century edit 2002 Melanie Wood became the first American woman and second woman overall to be named a Putnam Fellow in 2002 Putnam Fellows are the top five or six in case of a tie scorers on William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 23 24 2004 Melanie Wood became the first woman to win the Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student It is an annual award given to an undergraduate student in the US Canada or Mexico who demonstrates superior mathematics research 25 Alison Miller became the first female gold medal winner on the U S International Mathematical Olympiad Team 26 2006 Stefanie Petermichl a German mathematical analyst then at the University of Texas at Austin became the first woman to win the Salem Prize an annual award given to young mathematicians who have worked in Raphael Salem s field of interest chiefly topics in analysis related to Fourier series 27 4 She shared the prize with Artur Avila 28 2007 Kaumudi Joshipura an Indian dentist scientist biostatistician and epidemiologist became the NIH endowed chair and director of the center for clinical research and health promotion at University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus 29 30 2019 Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win the Abel Prize with the award committee citing the fundamental impact of her work on analysis geometry and mathematical physics 31 See also editTimeline of women in mathematicsReferences edit Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B Anthony Matilda Joslyn Gage Ida Husted Harper eds 1889 History of Woman Suffrage 1848 1861 Volume 1 Susan B Anthony p 36 Retrieved 2011 04 18 Susan E Kelly amp Sarah A Rozner 28 February 2012 Winifred Edgerton Merrill She Opened the Door PDF Notices of the AMS 59 4 Retrieved 25 January 2014 Mildred Leonora Sanderson agnesscott edu Retrieved 2014 01 25 a b c d e f g h Prizes Awards and Honors for Women Mathematicians agnesscott edu Retrieved 2014 01 25 Euphemia Lofton Haynes first African American woman mathematician math buffalo edu Retrieved 2014 01 25 Gertrude Mary Cox agnesscott edu Retrieved 2014 01 25 How Gladys West uncovered the Hidden Figures of GPS GPS World 2018 03 19 Retrieved 2018 09 22 Mary L Boas 1966 Mathematical methods in the physical sciences Wiley ISBN 9780471084174 Spector Donald 1999 Book Reviews American Journal of Physics 67 2 165 169 doi 10 1119 1 19216 Mina Rees agnesscott edu Retrieved 2014 01 25 New Zealand Mathematical Societu Newsletter Number 84 April 2002 Massey ac nz Retrieved 2017 06 20 About AWM AWM Association for Women in Mathematics Retrieved 2014 01 25 JCW Math Joint Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences jcwmath wordpress com Retrieved 2014 01 25 Jean Taylor agnesscott edu Retrieved 2014 01 25 Interview with Joan Birman PDF Notices of the AMS 54 1 4 December 2006 Retrieved 25 January 2014 Doris Schattschneider Perplexing Pentagons britton disted camosun bc ca Archived from the original on 2016 08 13 Retrieved 2014 01 25 a b Profiles of Women in Mathematics Julia Robinson awm math org Retrieved 2014 01 25 Oakes E H 2007 Encyclopedia of World Scientists Facts On File Incorporated ISBN 9781438118826 2005 Parson Lecturer Dr Doris Schattschneider University of North Carolina at Asheville Department of Mathematics Archived from the original on 2014 01 11 Retrieved 2013 07 13 Riddle Larry April 5 2013 Biographies of Women Mathematicians Doris Schattschneider Agnes Scott College Retrieved 2013 07 13 Gloria Ford Gilmer math buffalo edu Retrieved 2014 01 25 Rimer Sara 10 October 2008 Math Skills Suffer in U S Study Finds The New York Times Retrieved 2019 11 20 Duke Magazine Where Are They Now January February 2010 dukemagazine duke edu Retrieved 2014 01 25 Melanie Wood The Making of a Mathematician Cogito cogito cty jhu edu Retrieved 2014 01 25 2003 Morgan Prize PDF Notices of the AMS 51 4 26 February 2004 Retrieved 25 January 2014 Math Forum Drexel Congratulations Alison mathforum org Retrieved 2014 01 25 Short vita retrieved 2016 07 04 UZH Fields Medal Winner Artur Avila Appointed Full Professor at the University of Zurich Media uzh ch 2018 07 24 Retrieved 2018 10 09 Joshipura Kaumudi Jinraj February 2017 CV PDF Harvard School of Public Health Kaumudi Joshipura Harvard School of Public Health Retrieved 2019 07 29 Change Kenneth March 19 2019 Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Receive Abel Prize in Mathematics New York Times Retrieved 19 March 2019 Further reading editA Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics The Presidents Perspectives by Lenore Blum 1991 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Timeline of women in mathematics in 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