Geraldine Claudette Darden

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Geraldine Claudette Darden (born July 22, 1936 in Virginia ) is an American mathematician and university professor . She was the fourteenth African American woman to receive a doctorate.

life and work

Darden was born in the now-extinct township of Nansemond County, Virginia and attended separate public schools. She earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Hampton Institute in 1957 and then taught at SH Clarke Junior High School in Portsmouth, Virginia. In 1958, she received a National Science Foundation scholarship to attend the Summer Institute in Mathematics at North Carolina Central University . Here she met the mathematician and institute director Marjorie Lee Browne , who encouraged her to attend graduate school. In 1960 she earned a Masters degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignand a second master's degree in 1965. She received her doctorate in 1967 from Syracuse University with James Reid with the dissertation: On the Direct Sums of Cyclic Groups. She then became a professor of mathematics at the Hampton Institute (today: Hampton University ) and moved to Bell Laboratories in 1981 , where she retired in 2001. Together with the textbook author Tom Apostol she published "Selected Papers on Pre-Calculus", reprinted from the American Mathematical Monthly (Vol. 181) and from the Mathematics Magazine (Vol. 149). The Raymond W. Brink Selected Mathematical Papers. 1. The Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1977. pp. Xvii + 469, ISBN 978-0883852002

literature

  • Sammons, Vivian Ovelton: Blacks in Science and Medicine, Hemisphere, 1990.
  • Spangenburg, Ray; Kit Moser: African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention: A to Z of African Americans, Facts on File, 2003.
  • Warren, Wini: Black Women Scientists in the United States (Race, Gender, and Science), Indiana University Press, 2000.
  • Janice Koch, Beverly Irby, Barbara Polnick: Girls and Women in STEM: A Never Ending Story, 2014, ISBN 978-1-62396-557-0
  • Bettye Anne Case, Anne M. Leggett: Complexities: Women in Mathematics, Princeton University Press, 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Darden, Geraldine Claudette
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Darden, Geraldine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Virginia