Anna Mayme Howe

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Anna Mayme Howe (born October 24, 1883 in Jordan , Onondaga County , New York , † August 8, 1976 in Auburn , New York ) was an American mathematician and university professor .

Life and research

Howe was born the younger of two children and graduated from Auburn, New York high school. She began studying mathematics at Wells College in 1904 and received her bachelor's degree in 1908 . She taught mathematics for the next two years, then studied at Cornell University , where she received her master's degree in 1911 . She then headed the math department at Fairmont Seminary, a girls' school in Washington, DC In 1915, she returned to Cornell University on a graduate scholarship and received her PhD in algebraic geometry in 1917 with Virgil Snyder . Her dissertation: "The Classification of Plane Involutions of Order 3" appeared in the American Journal of Mathematics in 1919 and has been cited several times. From 1918 to 1919 she was the supervisor of the technical supplies for the WR Grace and Company in New York and in 1919 she became a math teacher at the Dana Hall School in Wellesley. From 1920 to 1921 she was an instructor at the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans and from 1921 to 1930 assistant professor there. In 1924 she took part in the International Congress of Mathematics. In 1927 she returned to New York because of her father's illness and in 1928 wrote a letter to the dean asking for a raise. In 1930 she submitted her resignation to the Dean of Newcomb College and was replaced by Marie Johanna Weiss . In 1930 she moved back to Jordan with her widowed mother and in 1931 was the head of the mathematics department at Cazenovia College , New York. In 1942 the former Cazenovia Seminary was closed and the school became the Cazenovia Junior College, where she was a professor until 1957. In 1915 she became a founding member of the MAA and attended many national section assemblies. In 1928 she was treasurer of the AAUW's New Orleans Convention, former president of the Madison County Mathematics Association. She was a member of the New York Mathematics Teachers Association, the American Association of Junior Colleges, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Phi Theta Kappa.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • 1919 The classification of plane involutions of order 3. Amer. J. Math. 41: 25-48.

literature

  • Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Howe, Anna Mayme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Jordan , Onondaga County , New York
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1976
Place of death Auburn , New York