Florence Eliza Allen

Florence Eliza Allen (born October 4, 1876 in Horicon (Wisconsin) , † December 31, 1960 in Madison (Wisconsin) ) was an American mathematician , university teacher and suffragette. In 1907 she was the second woman to receive her PhD in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin .

life and work

Allen studied mathematics at the University of Wisconsin's College of Letters and Science and received her bachelor's degree in 1900 . In 1901 she obtained her master’s degree and did her doctorate in 1907 with Linnaeus Wayland Dowling with the dissertation: The Cyclic Involutions of Third Order Determined by Nets of Curves of Deficiency 0, 1, and 2. She became an assistant in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin in 1901 and became 1945 assistant professor. As a student she became a member of Phi Beta Kappa and as a doctoral student a member of the female student union Delta Delta Delta . She was president of a society for fine arts and literature for women.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

1914: The cyclic involutions of third order determined by nets of curves of deficiency 0, 1, and 2. QJ Pure Appl. Math. 45.
1915: A certain class of transcendental curves. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 39.
1927: Closure of the tangential process on the rational plane cubic. Amer. J. Math. 49.
1928: Unsigned obituary of LW Dowling in "Notes and News." Amer. Math. Monthly 35.

literature

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-in-Chief. New York: The American Commonwealth Co., 1914.
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	Allen, Florence Eliza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician, university professor, and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 4, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Horicon (Wisconsin)
DATE OF DEATH	December 31, 1960
Place of death	Madison (Wisconsin)