Category Archives: Math

Emilie Martin was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at Mount Holyoke College. Her research focused on primitive substitution groups.

Ethel Elderton was a statistician who worked for Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. Although her work was an important contribution applying statistics to social problems, much of it makes difficult reading today because it is written with a eugenic perspective.

Winifred Lydia Caunden Sargent was an English mathematician who worked in Lebesgue integration, and fractional integration and differentiation.

Margaret Boyle graduated from St Andrews and taught mathematics at Dalkeith High School.

Frances Wood was an English chemist and statistician who became a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1913. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1917, and an officer in the order in 1918.

Flora Philip was a Scottish mathematician who studied at Edinburgh University and was among the first women to receive a degree there when they changed the rules. She was the first woman member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.

Charlotte Angas Scott studied at Cambridge but was not allowed to take her degree. After graduate work at Cambridge she became the first Head of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania USA.

Mary Warner was a Welsh mathematician who was a pioneer in fuzzy mathematics.

Ruth Michler was an American mathematician who became an expert in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. She organised several special sessions at meetings of the American Mathematical Society. She was killed in a road accident in Boston at the age of 33.