Charlotte Angas Scott

Charlotte Angas Scott (born June 8, 1858 in Lincoln (Lincolnshire) , England , † November 10, 1931 in Cambridge ) was a British mathematician who worked mainly in the USA. She mainly dealt with algebraic and analytic geometry.

Scott was born the daughter of pastor ( Congregationalist ), social reformer, and President of Lancashire College Caleb Scott. She attended Girton College at Cambridge University (then Hitchin College at the time), where she studied mathematics on a scholarship, and also took part in the Tripos exams in Cambridge unofficially (she was eighth in her class), although officially no women were allowed in the exams. She was not mentioned when the test results were read out, but male students called her name ( Scott of Girton ) in the place where she was assigned . She then taught at Girton College and studied at the same time at the University of London , where she made her bachelor's degree in 1882 and received her doctorate with top grades from Arthur Cayley (D.Sc.) in 1885 . In the same year she went to the newly established Bryn Mawr College for Women on Cayley's recommendation , where she headed the mathematics faculty. She insisted on strict entrance exams and initiated the establishment of the College Entrance Examination Board, where she was subsequently an examiner. In 1909 she received a personal chair at Bryn Mawr.

She was a founding member of the American Mathematical Society , created in 1895 from the New York Mathematical Society , of which she was vice president in 1905 and whose council she was a member for several years. In 1899 she became co-editor of the American Journal of Mathematics. She never married, but visited relatives in England frequently and officially retired in Bryn Mawr in 1925, but continued to look after some of her students for a few years. She had eight female doctoral students, some of whom she sent to Göttingen for additional studies. In retirement she went back to England and lived in Cambridge.

She was a member of the London Mathematical Society and the German Mathematicians Association (1898) as well as the mathematical societies in Edinburgh and Palermo.

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An introductory account of certain modern ideas and methods in plane analytical geometry , London, New York 1894, 1924

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SURNAME	Scott, Charlotte Angas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lincoln (Lincolnshire) , England
DATE OF DEATH	November 10, 1931
Place of death	Cambridge