Category Archives: Math

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.

Sylvia Skan was an English applied mathematician who worked on fluid dynamics and aerodynamics. For most of her career, she worked for the Aerodynamics Department of the National Physical Laboratory. She wrote many papers and the two volume book Handbook for computers.

Mary Simpson graduated from Edinburgh and then took up a post at Queen’s College Dundee.

Celia Hoyles is a Professor of Mathematics Education at University College London. She has received many honours for her contributions to education such as an OBE, a DBE, and the first Hans Freudenthal Medal by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction.

Anne Bosworth Focke was an American mathematician who became the first female doctoral student of David Hilbert. She was a professor of mathematics and physics at what is now the University of Rhode Island.

Grace Chisholm Young was an English mathematician who together with her husband William Young wrote many mathematical articles and several books.

Annie Hutton Numbers graduated from Edinburgh University and worked in the Chemistry department in Edinburgh. She taught in schools in Ipswich and High Wycombe.

Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave studied the mathematical tripos at Girton College Cambridge. She the taught mathematics at a High School for eleven years before becoming an assistant to Karl Pearson in the Galton Laboratory of University College, London. She later became an assistant to Leonard Bairstow in the Department of Aeronautics at the Imperial College, London. She published two papers with Pearson and two with Bairstow.