Louise Duffield Cummings

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Louise Cummings (top row, right) at the International Mathematics Congress in Zurich in 1932

Louise Duffield Cummings (born November 21, 1870 in Hamilton , Ontario , † May 9, 1947 ) was a Canadian -American mathematician and university teacher.

Life

Cummings studied after the Collegiate Institute in Hamilton at the University of Toronto , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1895. From 1895 to 1896 she studied mathematics with Alfred Tennyson DeLury (1864-1951) at the University of Toronto, from 1896 to 1897 with a scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania , from 1897 to 1898 at the University of Chicago and from 1898 to 1900 on Bryn Mawr College . She then taught at Ontario Normal College and St. Margaret's College. 1905 and 1912–1913 she returned to Bryn Mawr College. In 1914 she did her doctorate with Charlotte Angas Scott at Bryn Mawr College in pure mathematics and the minor subjects applied mathematics and physics . Her dissertation "On a method of comparison for triple systems" was published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 15. In 1915 she was promoted to assistant professor, in 1919 to associate professor and in 1927 to full professor. From 1902 until her retirement in 1936, she taught in the mathematics department of Vassar College . In 1924 she was invited to speak at the International Mathematics Congress in Toronto and in 1932 in Zurich .

Publications (selection)

  • A note on the groups for triple systems, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 19: pp. 355-356, 1913
  • On a method of comparison for triple systems, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 15: pp. 311-327, 1914
  • with HS White: Groupless triad systems on fifteen elements, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 22: pp. 12-16, 1915
  • An undervalued Kirkman paper, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 24: 336-339, 1918
  • The trains for the 36 groupless triad systems on 15 elements, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 25: pp. 321-324, 1919
  • A new type of double sextette closed under a binary (3,3) correspondence, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 31: pp. 266-274, 1925
  • Hexagonal systems of seven lines in a plane, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38: pp. 105-110, 1932
  • On a method of comparison for straight-line nets, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39: pp. 411-416, 1933

literature

  • Louise Ginstein: Some 'Forgotten' Women of Mathematics: A Who was Who, Philosophia Mathematica 13/14, 1976/77, pp. 73-78
  • Kenschaft, Patricia C .: The Students of Charlotte Angas Scott, Mathematics in College, Fall 1982, pp. 16-20
  • Biographical note, Ph.D. Thesis, Bryn Mawr College
  • Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics - The Pre-1940 PhD's. History of Mathematics. 34 (1st ed.), American Mathematical Society, The London Mathematical Society, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5

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SURNAME Cummings, Louise Duffield
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamilton , Ontario
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1947