Elizabeth Ruth Bennett

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Elizabeth Ruth Bennett (born October 9, 1880 in Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania , United States , † October 15, 1972 in Ann Arbor , Michigan ) was an American mathematician and university professor. She was the first woman to receive her PhD in mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1910 .

life and work

Bennett was born in Shawnee in 1880 and graduated from Ohio University in Athens in 1903 . From 1907 to 1908 she received a mathematics scholarship from the University of Illinois and from 1908 to 1910 a fellowship. She received her master’s degree there in 1908 and received her doctorate in 1910 with George Abram Miller with the dissertation: Primitive Groups with a Determination of the Primitive Groups of Degree 20. The work was later published in the American Journal of Mathematics, Volume 34, No. 1, p Published 1–20. She then taught at the University of Nebraska , where she was a lecturer in the math department. She married John Grennan, a professor in the mechanical engineering department. From 1918 to 1921 she taught at the University of Illinois. She then moved to Ann Arbor , Michigan, where her husband taught at the University of Michigan. The Elizabeth R. Bennett Fellowship in Mathematics was established at the University of Illinois in 1974 by a bequest from Elizabeth Bennett.

Publications

  • Factoring in a Domain of Rationality, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 15, No. 12 (Dec., 1908), pp. 222-226.
  • Periodic Decimal Fractions, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 16, No. 5 (May, 1909), pp. 79-82.
  • Primitive Groups with a Determination of the Primitive Groups of Degree 20, American Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Jan., 1912), pp. 1-20.
  • Simply Transitive Primitive Groups Whose Maximal Subgroup Contains a Transitive Constituent of Order p2, or pq, or a Transitive Constituent of Degree 5, American Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Apr., 1914), pp. 134-136.
  • Primitive Groups with a Determination of the Primitive Groups of Degree 20 (Classic Reprint), 2017, ISBN 978-1528523585

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 Bennett, Elizabeth Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Shawnee on Delaware, Pennsylvania ,
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1972
Place of death Ann Arbor , Michigan