Flora Dobler Sutton

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Flora Dobler Sutton (born June 7, 1890 in Baltimore , Maryland , † June 23, 1976 there ) was an American mathematician specializing in statistics .

life and work

Dobler Sutton had six siblings, attended public schools and Western High School in Baltimore. In 1908 she began her studies at Woman's College of Baltimore ( Goucher College after 1910) and received her bachelor's degree in 1912 . In 1915 she studied at Johns Hopkins University , where she took courses in mathematics, education and statistics . In 1919 she attended summer school, where she attended courses in functional theory , number theory , group theory , probability theory , vector analysis, finite groups, and several courses in higher geometry. She also took a statistical methodology course in the Political Economy Department, and in 1920 enrolled at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health for additional courses in statistics. She received her doctorate in 1921 under Frank Morley with the dissertation: On Certain Chains of Theorems in Reflexive Geometry, the handwritten copy being dated 1920. From 1922 to 1923, she replaced an employee on leave in the Biometrics and Vital Statistics Department at the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. At the time of the 1930 census, she was living in Baltimore with her widowed father, two sisters, and a brother, and her occupation was listed as a substitute high school teacher. She spent most of her professional life in Baltimore working as a statistician for a stockbroking firm known as Mackubin, Legg & Co. Her brother Walter was a missionary and she visited him in 1959 in Tavoy , Burma . On the way there she visited Copenhagen , Rome , Istanbul , the Taj Mahal and Rangoon, on the return journey Thailand , Singapore , Hong Kong and Japan .

Publications

  • 1923: On certain chains of theorems in reflexive geometry. In: Amer. J. Math. Volume 45, No. 2, pp. 122-144 doi: 10.2307 / 2370492

literature

  • Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s . 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 .
  • “Dr. Sutton, 86, Was Statistician. ” In: Baltimore Sun , Jul 3, 1976.

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personal data
SURNAME Dobler Sutton, Flora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1976
Place of death Baltimore , Maryland