Louise Adelaide Wolf

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Louise Adelaide Wolf (born October 20, 1898 in Milwaukee , United States , † November 14, 1962 in the same place) was an American mathematician and university professor.

life and work

Wolf was born as the daughter of Caroline Kupperian, who immigrated from Germany, and an American tram conductor. She attended 26th Avenue School and South Division High School in Milwaukee for three and a half years. From 1915 to 1916 she studied at Milwaukee-Downer College. For the next twelve years she worked in a dental practice and in a public library in Milwaukee, taught for two years in a county school in Nevada and worked for two years in Florida . In 1928 she returned to Milwaukee College, an expansion division of the University of Wisconsin . She received her bachelor's degree in 1931 and her master's degree in 1933. She and her younger sister Margarete C. Wolf (Hopkins) both received their PhDs in 1935 as students of Mark Hoyt Ingraham . Her dissertation with the title “Similarity of Matrices in Which the Elements are Real Quaternions” was published in 1936. She then immediately started teaching at the University of Wisconsin. At the beginning of World War II , she was also a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. At this she was a lecturer from 1935 to 1938, assistant professor until 1951 and then associate professor until her retirement in 1961 .

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • 1936: Similarity of matrices in which the elements are real quaternions. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42
  • 1938: with MC Wolf: The linear equation in matrices with elements in a division algebra. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44

literature

  • Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 .
  • Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century, 2000, ISBN 978-0415920384

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personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Louise Adelaide
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Milwaukee
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1962
Place of death Milwaukee