Gloria Olive
Gloria Olive (born June 8, 1923 in New York City , United States , † April 17, 2006 in Dunedin , New Zealand ) was a New Zealand mathematician and university teacher.
life and work
Olive graduated from Brooklyn College in New York in 1944 with a Bachelor of Arts, followed by a Master of Arts in 1946 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison . She taught as a lecturer from 1946 to 1948 at the University of Arizona , from 1948 to 1950 at Idaho State University and until 1951 as a graduate assistant at Oregon State University . She then worked as a cryptographer in the US Department of Defense in Washington, DC She went to Anderson College in 1952 and received her doctorate in 1963 from Oregon State University with Arvid Turner Lonseth with a dissertation: Generalized Powers. In 1968 she left Anderson College and became a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Superior . She then taught from 1972 to 1988 at the University of Otago in New Zealand . She was a founding member of the New Zealand Mathematical Society .
literature
- Farquhar, Diane; Mary-Rose, Lynn: Women sum it up: Biographical sketches of women mathematicians, Christchurch, NZ: Hazard Press, 1989, ISBN 0908790066
Web links
- Biography at Biography of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
- Biography of O'Connor, John J .; Robertson, Edmund F., "Gloria Olive," MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Gloria Olive in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Olive, Gloria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Olive, Gloria Rita (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 2006 |
| Place of death | Dunedin , New Zealand |