Gladys Gibbens

Gladys Elizabeth Corson Gibbens (born January 21, 1893 in New Orleans , Louisiana , † September 24, 1983 in ibid) was an American mathematician and university professor.

life and work

Gibbens attended a private Roman Catholic school for girls in New Orleans after attending public elementary school. After graduating from Ursuline Academy in 1910, she attended H. Sophie Newcomb College, a college for women at Tulane University in New Orleans. In 1914 she completed her studies with a Bachelor of Arts and received in 1916 a Master of Arts at Tulane University. From 1917 to 1920 she studied at the University of Chicago , where she received a scholarship in the mathematics department from 1919 to 1920. She received her doctorate in 1920 under the direction of Ernest J. Wilczynski with the dissertation: Comparison of Different Line-Geometric Representations for Functions of a Complex Variable. After graduating, she became an instructor at the University of Minnesota . From 1925 to 1947 she was assistant professor there, from 1947 to 1958 associate professor and, after her retirement in 1958, emeritus associate professor.

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publication

1930 Some constructions for the classical problems of geometry. Amer. Math. Monthly 37: 343-48.

literature

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	Gibbens, Gladys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gibbens, Gladys Elizabeth Corson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	January 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	New Orleans , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH	September 24, 1983
Place of death	New Orleans , Louisiana