Ida May Schottenfels

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Ida May Schottenfels (born December 21, 1869 in the United States , † March 11, 1942 ) was an American mathematician and university professor.

life and work

Schottenfels completed her studies in 1892 at the then co-educational Northwestern University in Illinois with a Bachelor of Arts. She then studied at Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut) and earned a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1896 . She then taught mathematics at high schools in Chicago , Normal College in New York and Adrian College in Michigan . At the University of Toledo she was appointed head of the mathematics department in 1910. She has lectured on her research at mathematics conferences, as well as meetings and colloquiums of the American Mathematical Society .

Publications (selection)

  • On the interchange of limit and integral for classes of functions in real, complex, and quaternionic numbers, Bulletin AMS 38, 1932
  • The holoedric isomorphism of the collineation group G20160, PG [2.22], and the ternary linear fractional group, Bulletin AMS 37, 1931
  • The error in Hartogs' proof of the Zermelo theorem, American MS Bull. 30, 1924
  • Two non-isomorphic simple groups of same order 20, 160 ", The Annals of Mathematics, 2nd Series, Vol. 1, No. 1/4, 1899-1900
  • A set of generators for ternary linear groups, Bulletin of The American Mathematical Society, 1905
  • Note on the necessary condition that two linear homogenous differential equations shall have common integrals, The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 10, no. 12, 1903

literature

  • Fenster, Della Dumbaugh and Karen Parshall: "Women in the American mathematical research community: 1891–1906," The History of Modern Mathematics, Vol.3: Images, Ideas, and Communities, Eberhard Knobloch and David E. Rowe (eds.) , 229-261.
  • Siegel, Joan and Kay Thomas Finley: Women in the Scientific Search: An American Bio-Bibliography 1724–1979, Scarecrow Press, 1985, ISBN 9780810817555
  • David E. Zitarelli: A History of Mathematics in the United States and Canada: Volume 1: 1492–1900, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4704-4829-5
  • C. Jones: Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880-1914, 2009, ISBN 978-1-349-36409-1
  • General Register of the Officers and Alumni, 1892–1902 Volume 1902, 2012, ISBN 978-1155020297

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personal data
SURNAME Schottenfels, Ida May
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH United States
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1942