Grace Marie Bareis

Grace Marie Bareis (born December 19, 1875 in Canal Winchester , Ohio , † June 15, 1962 in Columbus , Ohio) was an American mathematician and university teacher. She became the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics from Ohio State University in 1909 .

life and work

After attending the public schools in Canal Winchester, Bareis studied at Heidelberg University (Heidelberg College after 1926) in Tiffin and received his bachelor's degree in 1897 . From 1897 to 1899 she was a PhD student at Bryn Mawr College and also worked at Columbia University . From 1899 to 1906 she was a teacher at Miss Roney's School in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , while she continued her thesis in mathematics at nearby Bryn Mawr College. She came to Ohio State University on a scholarship in 1906, became an assistant professor in 1908 and received her doctorate in 1909 with Harry Waldo Kuhn with the dissertation Imprimitive Substitution Groups Of Degree Sixteen . In 1915 she attended the organizational meeting to found the Mathematical Association of America. She lived for 26 years with a friend, her former student and later colleague Margaret Eloise Jones (1895–1979), in Columbus. In 1946, she retired as assistant professor emeritus. She continued teaching two years after retiring due to a lack of math teachers for the returning veterans, and in 1948 she donated $ 2,000 to Ohio State University for a fund to award prizes based on written competitions for students. The Grace M. Bareis Mathematical Prize was first awarded in 1949 and the competitions have been held annually since then.

publication

• 1932: with Vladimir F. Ivanoff: A simple geometrical paradox – Proposed by JL Coolidge. Amer. Math. Monthly 39: 29-31

Memberships

• American Mathematical Society
• Mathematical Association of America
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Sigma Xi

literature

• Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering women in American mathematics: the pre-1940 PhD's . American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 (English).
  • Judy Green, Jeanne Laduke: BAREIS, Grace M. In: American Mathematical Society (Ed.): Supplementary Material For Pioneering Women In American Mathematics: ThePre-1940 PHD's . January 15, 2016, p. 48 (English, 674 pages, download [PDF; 2.9 MB ; accessed on August 15, 2020] Additional information (supplement) to the book).
• David E. Zitarelli: A history of mathematics in the United States and Canada . Volume 1. 1492-1930. tape 1 . MAA Press (Imprint of the American Mathematical Society), Providence, Rhode Island 2019, ISBN 978-1-4704-4829-5 (English).
• John William Leonard: Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada . American Commonwealth Company, New York 1915, LCCN  sf94-091979 (English).

Web links

• Larry Riddle: Grace Marie Bareis. In: Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Agnes Scott College, February 20, 2020 (English, biography). 
• Rasor-Bareis-Gordon Competition. Ohio State University - Department of Mathematics(English). 
• Grace Marie Bareis. In: Mathematics Genealogy Project . North Dakota State University - Department of Mathematics(English, dissertation). 
• Grace Marie Bareis. Ohio State University - Department of Mathematics(English, biography). 
• Papers of Helen Brewster Owens, 1867-1968. In: HOLLIS for Archival Discovery. Harvard Library(English, content: Correspondence, scrapbooks, speeches, etc., of Helen Brewster Owens, mathematician and suffragist. In: Schlesinger Library , Radcliffe College ). 
• Retired OSU Teacher Dies at 86th Ohio State University (found in the penultimate chapter of the website).  Originally published inThe Columbus Dispatch, June 16, 1962.