Emilie Martin

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Emilie Norton Martin (born December 30, 1869 in Elizabeth (New Jersey) , † February 8, 1936 in South Hadley, Massachusetts ) was an American mathematician and university teacher . She was a professor of mathematics at Mount Holyoke College .

life and work

Martin was the daughter of Robert Wilkie Martin (1841-1907) and Mary Holmes Ford and attended Mrs. EL Head's School in Germantown, Philadelphia , which offered female students the opportunity to prepare for entry into Bryn Mawr College . This college was a non-denominational college, although it was founded on Quaker principles by the Quaker Joseph Taylor. When Martin began studying mathematics and Latin there in 1890, Charlotte Angas Scott was the first head of mathematics as one of only two female professors among the seven. Martin completed her studies in 1894 with a Bachelor of Arts. During her studies in 1893 she worked as a private tutor for mathematics and Latin. Since Bryn Mawr College was the first institution in the United States to offer women higher degrees, she studied mathematics and physics as a doctoral student after graduation and taught the second semester 1894-95 as a teacher at the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore .

In the following academic year she was made a Fellow at Bryn Mawr College and was able to continue her research with the aim of a PhD. She worked as a PhD student from 1896–1897 and won a Mary Garrett Scholarship for a year abroad that year . This scholarship was sponsored by Mary Elizabeth Garrett, who inherited a fortune from her father who was president of the first great American railroad. Mary Garrett was friends with Martha Carey Thomas and a group of other women who wanted to help women get better education and who founded the Bryn Mawr School for Girls in Baltimore in 1885. The scholarship was established in 1894 and Martin received $ 500 to fund her stay at the Georg August University of Göttingen in Germany from 1897 to 1898 . There she attended courses from Felix Klein and David Hilbert .

After her year in Göttingen she returned to Bryn Mawr College and did her doctorate in 1899 with Charlotte Angas Scott with the dissertation: On the Imprimitive Substitution Groups of Degree Fifteen and the Primitive Substitution Groups of Degree Eighteen. She then taught for a year at Misses Kirk's School in Rosemont, Pennsylvania . From 1901 to 1902 she worked as a postdoc at Bryn Mawr College and in 1903 was appointed mathematics teacher at Mount Holyoke College, which was founded by Mary Lyon in 1837 as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and was the first institution in the United States to offer higher education for women. Martin taught there until the end of the first semester of 1904/1905. She had requested leave of absence for the second semester of the academic year in which she had compiled the general index for the first thirteen volumes of the American Mathematical Society bulletin . From 1906 to 1907 she did research with a postdoctoral degree with Bryn Mawr and then taught at Mount Holyoke College, where she was promoted to associate professor in 1911. In 1925 she became a full professor and in 1927 took over the role of chairman of the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1934 she was told by her doctors that she had cancer. In September 1935, she resigned her professorship at Mount Holyoke College and was appointed professor emeritus at that time. She died in February of the following year in her accommodation on the campus of Mount Holyoke College.

literature

  • MJ Bailey, Emilie Norton Martin, in American women in science: prior to 1950 American women scientists: a biographical dictionary (ABC-Clio, Denver, Colorado, 1994), 236-237.
  • Emilie Norton Martin, Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin (April 1936), 31.
  • J. Green and J. LaDuke, Emilie Norton Martin, in Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's (American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2009), 235-236.
  • PC Kenschaft, The students of Charlotte Agnas Scott, Mathematics in College (1982), 16-20.
  • MB Ogilvie and J Harvey (eds), Emilie Norton Martin, in The biographical dictionary of women in science LZ: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century (Taylor & Francis, New York, 2000), 848.
  • Woman's Who's Who of America: A biographical dictionary of contemporary women of the United States and Canada, 1914–1915. John William Leonard, Editor, American Commonwealth Co., 1914.
  • Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, April 1936, p31.

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personal data
SURNAME Martin, Emilie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Emilie Norton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Elizabeth (New Jersey)
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1936
Place of death South Hadley, Massachusetts