Margaret Evelyn Mauch

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Margaret Evelyn Mauch (born June 1, 1897 in De Smet , South Dakota , † November 16, 1987 in Huron , South Dakota) was an American mathematician and university professor .

Life and research

Mauch attended public elementary and secondary schools in South Dakota . She studied at Huron College (now closed) in Huron, about thirty miles from De Smet. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1919, she taught for a year at Winner High School in Winner, South Dakota, in the south-central part of the state, and was then Headmaster of Edgerton High School in Minnesota for a year . From 1921 to 1923 she attended the University of Chicago , where she received her master's degree in 1923 with a thesis in theoretical mechanics. From 1924 to 1925 she taught at the high school in Jacksonville , Florida , and was then until 1929 an instructor and assistant professor at Randolph-Macon Woman's College (now: Randolph College ) in Lynchburg , Virginia . She returned to the University of Chicago to graduate. In 1938 she did her doctorate with Leonard Eugene Dickson with the dissertation: Extensions of Waring's Theorem on Seventh Powers. She was head of the math department at Brookings, South Dakota High School from 1934 to 1942, 1934-42, and then until 1944 instructor and assistant professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. From 1944 to 1945 she was an instructor at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University ) and in 1945 became an assistant professor at the University of Akron , where she was promoted to associate professor in 1950 and professor in 1962. She retired in 1963 but continued to teach at the University of Akron and was promoted to professor emeritus in 1966.

Publications (selection)

  • Extensions of Waring's Theorem on Seventh Powers, University of Chicago, 1941

Memberships

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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