Goldie Printis Horton

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Goldie Printis Horton (born September 4, 1887 in Athens (Texas) , United States , † May 11, 1972 ) was an American mathematician and university professor. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Texas in 1917 , where she taught until 1966.

life and work

Horton received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas in 1908 and then taught in high school for a year. In 1910 she earned a masters degree from Smith College and taught again in high school from 1910 to 1912. From 1912 to 1913 she studied at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania . In 1917 she was the first woman to do her doctorate in mathematics at the University of Texas with Hyman Joseph Ettlinger with the dissertation: Functions of Limited Variation and Lebesgue Integrals. She then became a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Texas, associate professor in 1926 and assistant professor in 1935. In 1934 she published a book on analytical geometry with Milton Brockett Porter and married him that same year. She taught until 1966.

Publications (selection)

  • 1916: A note on the calculation of Euler's constant , In: American Mathematical Monthly , Volume 23, p. 73
  • 1916: Concerning Roulettes , In: American Mathematical Monthly , Volume 23, pp. 237-241
  • 1918: Functions of limited variation and Lebesgue integrals , In: Annals of Mathematics , Volume 20, pp. 1-8.

literature

  • Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's , 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5
  • David E. Zitarelli: A History of Mathematics in the United States and Canada: Volume 1: 1492–1900 , 2019, ISBN 978-1-4704-4829-5
  • American Men of Sciences , 7th Edition, Jacques Cattell, Editor, Science Press, 1944

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personal data
SURNAME Horton, Goldie Printis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens (Texas)
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1972