Marie Cecilia Mangold

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Sister Marie Cecilia Mangold (born December 5, 1872 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † February 9, 1934 ) was an American mathematician and university professor.

Life and research

Mangold was born as Josephine Margaret Mangold, the fifth of eight surviving children of Mary Anna Hemann and her German husband Matthew Mangold. She attended parish school in Cincinnati and later the Academy of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur . In 1898 she began the novitiate and in 1900 joined the religious community. In 1901 she studied mathematics as Sister Marie Cecilia at Trinity College , where she succeeded Sister Blandina in 1904, taught and headed the mathematics department until her death in 1934. She obtained her bachelor's degree in 1910, majoring in mathematics and physics, in 1914 she received her master’s degree in mathematics and chemistry. In 1929 she received her doctorate from the Catholic University of America as the second religious in mathematics after Sister Mary Gervase . The title of her dissertation was: The Loci Described by the Vertices of Singly Infinite Systems of Triangles Circumscribed about a Fixed Conic. In 1942 the Cecilia Memorial Prize at Trinity College was awarded to a high-ranking mathematician.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • 1927: Methods of Measuring the Reliability of Tests. Washington, DC: The Catholic Education Press. Educational Research Bulletins, vol. 2, no.8.
  • 1929: with Sister Mary Louise M'Graw: Group Intelligence Tests in the Primary Grades. Washington, DC: The Catholic Education Press. Educational Research Bulletins, vol. 4, no.2.

literature

  • Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 .
  • Peter L. Duren, Richard Askey, Uta C. Merzbach, Harold M. Edwards: A Century of Mathematics in America, Part 2, 1989, ISBN 978-0821801307

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personal data
SURNAME Mangold, Marie Cecilia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mangold, Josephine Margaret (maiden name); Sister Mangold, Marie Cecilia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1934