Anne Cobbe

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Anne Cobbe at Somerville College, Oxford in 1939

Anne Philippa Cobbe (born August 7, 1920 in Sharnbrook , Bedfordshire , England , † December 15, 1971 in Oxford , Engla) was an English mathematician and university professor . She was a tutor in pure mathematics at Somerville College , which during her time was a women's college.

life and work

Cobbe was the youngest of three children of General Alexander Cobbe and Winifred Ada Bowen and attended boarding school at Downe House School near Newbury, Berkshire . In 1939 she passed the entrance exams in mathematics to the University of Oxford and received a place at Somerville College. In 1942 she passed her final exams and then took a position in operational research for the Royal Navy . After the war she returned to Oxford and received a Master of Arts degree in 1946 . She did research with John Henry Constantine Whitehead . Her first work in homological algebra (Some algebraic properties of crossed modules) was published in 1951 and in 1952 she received her PhD from the University of Oxford with a dissertation: Modern Algebraic Theories. She became a lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall and published in 1955: On the cohomology groups of a finite group . In the same year she returned to Somerville, where she was appointed as a scholar and tutor. In 1957 she published On Q-Kernels with Operators , a joint paper with Robert Leroy Taylor. In 1969 she became seriously ill and in April 1971 gave up her position as a fellow and tutor, but continued to offer support and advice until her death in December. She donated her house on Walton Street to Somerville on condition that the philosopher Philippa Foot could live there for life. In 1972 Somerville College established the Anne Cobbe Memorial Fund.

literature

  • IW Busbridge: Anne Philippa Cobbe, Bull. London Math. Soc. 5, 1973.
  • Murdoch, Iris; Horner, Avril; Rowe, Anne: Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934–1995. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2016, ISBN 9780691170565 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cobbe, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cobbe, Anne Philippa (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Sharnbrook , Bedfordshire , England
DATE OF DEATH 15th December 1971
Place of death Oxford , England