Beatrice Hagen

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Beatrice Liberty Hagen (born July 4, 1899 in Barton County (Kansas) , † July 22, 1987 in Ellinwood ) was an American mathematician and university professor.

Life and research

Hagen received her elementary and secondary education in public schools and graduated from Ellinwood High School in 1916 . She then studied mathematics at the University of Kansas , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1920 . She then taught at Kansas High Schools in Burlington until 1922 and in Dodge City until 1924 . She then studied at the University of Chicago , where she received her master's degree in 1926 . She taught at Ozark Wesleyan College in Carthage, Missouri until 1927, and taught at Nebraska State Normal College (now Chadron State College ) in Chadron from 1928 to 1929 . After further studies at the University of Chicago, she did her doctorate in 1930 with Ernest Preston Lane with the dissertation: Quintuples of Three-Dimensional Varieties in a Four-Dimensional Linear Space. She then taught at Fort Hays Kansas State College (now Fort Hays State University ) and went to Pennsylvania State College (now Pennsylvania State University ) as a trainer in 1931 until her retirement in 1959 . In 1940 she was promoted to assistant professor, in 1945 to associate professor and in 1956 to professor. Her colleagues included Helen Brewster Owens , Teresa Cohen , Aline Huke Frink, and Ethel Moody. After her retirement, she was made an associate professor at Kansas State University , where she taught until 1962. In 1964, she moved to Great Bend , Kansas.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • 1940: with CC Wagner, E. Johnson, Jr., CH Graves: Introduction to Statistics. State College, PA: Pennsylvania State College. Subsequent eds .: 1941, 1944, 1949, 1952.
  • 1941: with RB Rasmusen: Comments on canonical lines. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 47.

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 Hagen, Beatrice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagen, Beatrice Liberty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Barton County, Kansas
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1987
Place of death Ellinwood