Jewish Archives - Page 15 of 21

Lenore Blum

Lenore Blum is an American mathematician who has made important advances in computer science.

C Doris Hellman

Doris Hellman was an American historian of Science.

Dorothy Bernstein was awarded a Ph.D. in 1939 and had an excellent career overcoming prejudice against her as a woman and as a Jew. She became the first woman president of the Mathematical Association of America.

Grace Jane Joel

Joel exhibited regularly in France and Great Britain with conservative bodies such as the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Société des artistes français in Paris.

Marina Ratner

Marina Ratner was a Russian mathematician who worked in Israel and America. She worked in ergodic theory.

Marion Walter

Marion Ilse Walter was born in Berlin and escaped the Nazis on the Kindertransport to England. She emigrated to the United States in 1948 and after earning her doctorate, founded the Mathematics Department at Simmons College. She published over 40 journal articles, several children’s books, and the popular book The Art of Problem Posing.

Ida Rhodes

Ida Rhodes was born in the Ukraine but emigrated to the United States as a teenager. She studied mathematics and had a variety of jobs before joining the Mathematical Tables Project in New York City. She did important work on the development of computers.

Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Svetlana Jitomirskaya is a Ukranian-born American mathematician who is known for her work on dynamical systems and mathematical physics.

Cecilia Krieger

Cypra Cecilia Krieger Dunaj was the first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from a Canadian university and only the third person to be awarded a mathematics doctorate in Canada. She is best known for her English translation of Sierpinski’s Introduction to General Topology (1934) and General Topology (1952)