Josephine Elizabeth Burns Glasgow

Josephine Elizabeth Burns Glasgow (born July 22, 1887 in Greenville (Illinois) , † January 22, 1969 ) was an American mathematician and university professor. She was the second woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from the University of Illinois.

Life and research

Burns Glasgow was the third of four children of Ida Jane and James Clinton Burns, who was a professor of history at Western Illinois University. She studied mathematics at the University of Illinois where he received in 1909 her Bachelor Accounts and 1911 the Master Accounts. She then studied for a year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and then did her doctorate in 1913 under George Abram Miller at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with the dissertation: The Abstract Definitions of Groups of Degree Eight. In 1916 she married Robert D. Glasgow, who had a doctorate in entomology, who taught entomology in Illinois until 1928 . During these years she also taught in the mathematics department at various times. In 1928 she moved to Albany, New York , where she was very active on both the state and national levels in directing the American Association of University Women (AAUW) and in 1952 became Vice President of the National Board of Directors of the AAUW. In 1951 the Albany Section named a scholarship in her honor.

Publications (selection)

1915: The abstract definitions of the groups of degree 8. American Journal of Mathematics. 37 (2): 192-214.

literature

Josephine Elizabeth Burns Glasgow. Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Agnes Scott College. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2009). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. American Mathematical Society. p. 182. ISBN 9780821843765 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Burns Glasgow, Josephine Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Burns, Josephine Elizabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 22, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Greenville, Illinois
DATE OF DEATH	22nd January 1969