Laura Guggenbühl

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Laura Guggenbühl (born November 18, 1901 in New York City , † March 8, 1985 ) was an American mathematician and university professor. She is known for her work on triangular geometry and the history of mathematics.

Life and research

Guggenbühl was born the daughter of Swiss immigrants in New York City and attended public schools there. In 1918 she began studying mathematics at Hunter College and was a member of the mathematics club. She attended Columbia University in the summer of 1920 and New York University in 1921 . In 1922 she was a teacher at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Hunter College. She then studied at Columbia University in classes from WB Fite and Dunham Jackson . Until she continued her studies at Bryn Mawr College in 1923 , she was an instructor at Hunter College. In 1924 she received her Masters degree and stayed in Bryn Mawr as a Resident Fellow until 1926. She then returned to Hunter College as an instructor and received her PhD in Mathematics and Education from Bryn Mawr College in 1927 as the third dissertation student of Anna Pell Wheeler with the dissertation: An Integral Equation with an Associated Integral Condition. She did research on the faculty of Hunter College until her retirement in 1972: from 1932 to 1959 she was assistant professor and thereafter associate professor. Her research interests lay largely in the history of mathematics. She took part in many international mathematicians' congresses: 1932 in Zurich , 1950 in Cambridge (USA), 1954 in Amsterdam , 1959 in Edinburgh , 1962 in Stockholm , 1966 in Moscow and 1970 in Nice . She also made many other trips to Europe and reported in Science about two meetings she attended: the Congress of the French Association for the Advancement of Science in Caen and the Symposium on Topology in September 1961. After her retirement and in 1976 she accepted took part in a study trip to Guangdong in the People's Republic of China . She died while traveling the world with her sister-in-law shortly after the cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 left Hong Kong .

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • 1927: An integral equation with an associated integral condition. Ann. of Math. 2nd ser., 29.
  • 1937: The failure in required mathematics at Hunter College. Math. Teacher 30.
  • 1950: Gunstock 1769. Connecticut Antiquarian 2.
  • 1950: Two thousand years a best seller. Bull. Of the Near East Soc. 3.
  • 1953: Henri Brocard and the geometry of the triangle. Math. Gaz. 37.
  • 1955: Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach , mathematician. Sci. Monthly 81.
  • 1957: Note on the Gergonne point of a triangle. Amer. Math. Monthly 64.
  • 1957: An unusual application of a simple geometric principle. Math. Teacher 50.
  • 1958: Reuter, Gauss, and Göttingen. Math. Teacher 51.
  • 1959: Gergonne, founder of the Annales de Math'ematiques. Math. Teacher 52.
  • 1959: International Congress of Mathematicians, Edinburgh, 1958. Math. Teacher 52.
  • 1961: The international colloquium on differential geometry and topology in Zurich and the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Swiss Mathematical Society. Math. Teacher 54.
  • 1961: Journey to Delos. Math. Teacher 54.
  • 1964: The New York fragments of the Rhind mathematical papyrus. Math. Teacher 57.
  • 1965: Mathematics in ancient Egypt: a checklist (1930–1965). Math. Teacher 58: 630-34.
  • 1970: Brocard, Pierre Ren´e Jean-Baptiste Henri. In: Dictionary of Scientific Biography 2.
  • 1971: Feuerbach, Karl Wilhelm. In: Dictionary of Scientific Biography 4.

literature

  • Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Guggenbühl, Laura
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guggenbuhl, Laura (since the 1930s)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1985