Euphemia R. Worthington

Euphemia Richardson Worthington (born December 22, 1881 in Pittsburgh , United States , † August 30, 1969 in Victoria (British Columbia) ) was an American mathematician and university professor. She received her PhD in mathematics from Yale University in 1908 .

life and work

Worthington attended the Emma Willard School in Troy (New York) from 1895 to 1900 . She then studied at Wellesley College in Massachusetts , where she received a Bachelor of Arts in 1904 . She then studied at Yale University and completed her doctorate in 1908 with James Pierpont with the dissertation Some theorems on surfaces . After completing her doctorate, she taught at the Emma Willard School for a year. She taught at Wellesley College from 1909 to 1918 and was a founding member of the Mathematical Association of America in 1916. During the First World War she was from 1918 to 1919 assistant to the chief engineer of the Gallaudet Aircraft Corporation in East Greenwich , Rhode Island and worked there again from 1920 to 1922. Then she began to teach at the University of California, Los Angeles . In 1925 she became an assistant professor there and retired in 1949. In 1954 she was named a Fellow Emeritus by the University of California.

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literature

Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 .
Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century, 2000, ISBN 978-0415920384

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personal data
SURNAME	Worthington, Euphemia R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Worthington, Euphemia Richardson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pittsburgh ,
DATE OF DEATH	August 30, 1969
Place of death	Victoria (British Columbia)