Annie Dale Biddle Andrews

Annie Dale Biddle Andrews

Annie Dale Biddle (born December 13, 1885 in Hanford , California , United States , † April 14, 1940 ) was an American mathematician and university teacher. She was the first woman to receive her PhD in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1911 .

life and work

Dale Biddle received her bachelor's degree from the University of California in 1908 and received her doctorate in 1911 as the first woman in mathematics under Derrick Norman Lehmer at the University of California with a dissertation: Constructive Theory of the Unicursal Plane Quartic by Synthetic Methods. From 1911 to 1912 she was a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Washington . In 1912 she married Wilhelm Samuel Andrews, with whom she had a daughter and a son. Between 1915 and 1932 she was a temporary lecturer in mathematics at the University of California . In 1933 she was dismissed from teaching when the mathematics department was reorganized. Also in 1933, she presented a research paper at a meeting of the American Mathematical Society in Palo Alto , California. The abstract for the talk was published in the AMS Bulletin (Vol. 39 (1933), 205-206). From 1936, in addition to her mathematical research, she was actively interested in public affairs and charities.

Publications

• 1912: Constructive theory of the universal plane quartic by synthetic methods, Berkeley, Publications Univ. California
• 1933: The space quartic of the second kind by synthetic methods, Bulletin AMS, 205-206

literature

• Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering women in American mathematics: the pre-1940 PhD's . American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 (English).
  • Judy Green, Jeanne Laduke: ANDREWS, Annie Dale (Biddle) . In: American Mathematical Society (Ed.): Supplementary Material For Pioneering Women In American Mathematics: ThePre-1940 PHD's . January 15, 2016, p. 25 (English, 674 pages, download [PDF; 2.9 MB ; accessed on August 15, 2020] Additional information (supplement) to the book).
• David E. Zitarelli: A history of mathematics in the United States and Canada . Volume 1. 1492-1930. tape 1 . MAA Press (Imprint of the American Mathematical Society), Providence, Rhode Island 2019, ISBN 978-1-4704-4829-5 (English).

Web links

Commons : Annie Dale Biddle Andrews  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Larry Riddle: Annie Dale Biddle Andrews. In: Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Agnes Scott College, February 20, 2020 (English, biography). 
• Annie Dale Biddle. In: Mathematics Genealogy Project . North Dakota State University - Department of Mathematics(English, dissertation). 
• Look for "Annie Dale Biddle Andrews". In: ZbMATH . (Publications). 
• Larry Riddle: Annie Dale Biddle - Constructive Theory of the Unicursal Plane Quartic by Synthetic Methods. In: Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Agnes Scott College, February 26, 2016 (English, dissertation abstract).