Beulah Armstrong

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Beulah Armstrong (born November 18, 1895 in Sterling, Kansas , † February 22, 1965 in Urbana , Illinois ) was an American mathematician and university professor.

Life and research

Armstrong was born the third of five children in Sterling, Kansas. In 1900 the family lived in Enterprise Township, Ford County, Kansas , where their father was a farmer, and in 1910 they lived in Hutchinson, Kansas . She graduated from Hutchinson High School and then studied at Baker University in Baldwin, a co-educational school of the Methodist Church in eastern Kansas. After completing her bachelor's degree from Baker University in 1917, she received a one-year scholarship at the nearby University of Kansas . In 1918 she obtained a master’s degree and received a scholarship, which she did not accept because she continued her thesis at the university. From 1919 to 1921 she received scholarships to study at the University of Illinois and did her doctorate there in 1921 under George Abram Miller with a dissertation: Mathematical Induction in Group Theory. She was then an instructor at the University of Illinois from 1921 to 1931, associate professor from 1931 to 1945, assistant professor from 1945 to 1959 and associate professor in Illinois from 1959 until her retirement. In 1963 she retired as an associate professor. She has served in a number of on-campus and off-campus organizations. She was secretary and treasurer of Sigma Xi and was a member of Kappa Delta Pi. Her estate included a bequest of $ 1,000 to Baker University.

Memberships

literature

  • Dr. Beulah Armstrong Is Honored by Sigma Delta Epsilon Fraternity. ChampaignUrbana News Gazette, 23 May 1963.
  • Prof. Armstrong Dies. Champaign-Urbana Courier, 23 Feb 1965.
  • Armstrong Rites Are Thursday. Champaign-Urbana Courier, Feb 24, 1965.

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personal data
SURNAME Armstrong, Beulah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armstrong, Beulah May
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Sterling, Kansas
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1965
Place of death Urbana , Illinois