Margarete Caroline Wolf

Margarete C. Hopkins (born November 3, 1911 in Milwaukee , United States , † April 3, 1998 in Madison ) 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. After attending the Jefferson School in Greenfield (Wisconsin) and the Bay View High School in Milwaukee, she began studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1928 . From 1930 to 1932 she received the Fanny P. Lewis Scholarship, obtained a bachelor's degree in 1932 and a master's degree in 1933. From 1932 to 1934 she was a scholarship holder, from 1934 to 1935 research assistant and, like her sister Louise Adelaide Wolf, did her doctorate in 1935 under Mark Hoyt Ingraham . The title of her dissertation was: Symmetric Functions of Matrices. She continued to work as a research assistant until 1936, then as a part-time teacher and research assistant until 1938. From 1938 to 1941 she taught as a lecturer at Wayne State University in Detroit . In 1941 she married Edward John Hopkins, with whom she had a son and a daughter in New York City . From 1942 to 1944 she taught at Hunter College . From 1958 to 1964 she was assistant professor at St. Joseph's College New York , thereafter associate professor until 1968 and from 1969 to 1978 professor and chair of the mathematics department. After the death of her husband, she lived with her daughter in Madison. In 1997, at the age of eighty-five, she attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison Mathematics PhD Centennial Conference with ninety-five-year-old mathematician Elizabeth Hirschfelder .

Memberships

Publications (selection)

1936: Symmetric functions of non-commutative elements. Duke Math. J. 2nd
1937: with MH Ingraham: Relative linear sets and similarity of matrices whose elements belong to a division algebra. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 42
1938: Transformation of bases for relative linear sets. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44
1938: with MH Ingraham: Convergence of a sequence of linear transformations. Amer. J. Math. 60

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, Margarete Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hopkins, Margarete C. (Wolf)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Milwaukee ,
DATE OF DEATH	April 3, 1998
Place of death	Madison (Wisconsin)