Bird Margaret Turner

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Bird Margaret Turner (born April 18, 1877 in Moundsville , West Virginia , † September 5, 1962 in ibid) was an American mathematician and university teacher.

Life and research

Turner was born the second of five children to Mary Jane and farmer John Marion Turner. She graduated from Moundsville High School in 1893 and returned to Moundsville High School as a math teacher in 1900 after five years as an elementary school teacher. From 1900 to 1914 she studied mathematics in the summer holidays at the University of West Virginia , in 1906 at Harvard University and in 1908 at Bethany College. In 1913 she left Moundsville High School and went to West Virginia University as a student assistant in mathematics , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1915. She continued her studies at the university and was principal of Moundsville High School from 1915 to 1916. In 1916 she came to Bryn Mawr College as a scientist with the President M. Carey Thomas European Fellowship . In 1917 she received her Masters in Mathematics from the University of West Virginia. From 1917 to 1918 she was the assistant director of the Phebe Anna Thorn Model School at Bryn Mawr College, until 1919 she was a part-time teacher of mathematics at Bryn Mawr College and until 1920 Resident Fellow. She studied with Charlotte Angas Scott , Anna Pell Wheeler , Matilde Castro and Olive Hazlett . In 1920 she received her doctorate from Charlotte Angas Scott with a thesis on "Plane Cubics with a given quadrangle of inflexions", published in the American Journal of Mathematics , Volume 44, October 1922. She then taught for three years at the University of Illinois and then went on to be an assistant professor for mathematics at West Virginia University and taught there for the next 24 years. In 1925 she became an associate professor and in 1931 a full professor. In 1947 she returned to Moundsville after retiring.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • On the positions of the imaginary points of inflexion and critical centers of a real cubic, Annals of Mathematics, June 1922
  • Plane cubics associated with the quadrangle-quadrilateral configuration, Annals of Mathematics, September-December 1924
  • A configuration of thirteen pencils of cubics and cubics with three real inflexions, American Journal of Mathematics, July 1925
  • An application of the Laguerre method for the representation of imaginary points, American Journal of Mathematics, January 1930

literature

  • Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's, 2009
  • Vita, Ph.D. dissertation, Bryn Mawr College Library.
  • Kenschaft, Patricia. "The Students of Charlotte Angas Scott," Mathematics in College, 1982, pp. 16-20
  • Dr. Turner Dies at Moundsville. Morgantown (WV) Post, 6 Sep 1962.
  • Dr. Bird Turner, Veteran Teacher, Died Suddenly. Moundsville (WV) Echo, Sep 7, 1962.

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personal data
SURNAME Turner, Bird Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Moundsville, West Virginia
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1962
Place of death Moundsville, West Virginia