Lao Genevra Simons

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Lao Genevra Simons (born March 29, 1870 in San José , California , † November 25, 1949 in Greenwich , Connecticut ) was an American mathematician and mathematician .

biography

Simons' family moved back to New Jersey when she was a baby. She attended Columbia University's Teachers College . Dissatisfied with her teaching profession, she studied mathematics and astronomy at Vassar College . She then taught from 1895 until her retirement in 1940 at Hunter College , where she headed the mathematics faculty from 1927. She also earned a bachelor's degree in 1908 and a master's degree at Columbia University in 1912, where she received her doctorate in 1924 with a thesis on mathematics education, which was also published ( Introduction of Algebra into American Schools in the Eighteenth Century ).

From 1932 to 1949 she was in charge of book reviews at Scripta Mathematica .

She traveled a lot, for example to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich (1932) and Oslo (1936).

Simons published much on the history of mathematics in The Mathematics Teacher, the American Mathematical Monthly, and Scripta Mathematica. In 1936 she published a bibliography of American school and textbooks on algebra up to 1850.

Simons was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts

  • Fabre and Mathematics and Other Essay, Scripta Mathematica, New York 1939 ( online )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.math.harvard.edu - Lao Genevra Simons: Bibliography of Early American Textbooks on Algebra (English).
personal data
SURNAME Simons, Lao Genevra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and mathematician historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose , California
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1949
Place of death Greenwich , Connecticut