Marie Johanna Weiss

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Marie Johanna Weiss (born September 21, 1903 in Eugene (California) , United States , † August 19, 1952 in San Francisco ) was an American mathematician and university teacher. She became the first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from Stanford University in 1927 .

life and work

Weiss was born the youngest daughter of German emigrants and attended public high schools in Stockton, California before going to Stanford University in 1921. In 1924 she was an assistant in the mathematics class there. She was accepted into the honorary society Phi Beta Kappa and graduated in 1925 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics with distinction. The following year she studied at Radcliffe College , where she received her Masters degree in 1926. She returned to Stanford on a university scholarship and taught functional theory. In 1927 she did her doctorate there under William Albert Manning with the dissertation: Primitive Groups Which Contain Substitutions of Prime Order p and of Degree 6p or 7p. She received a National Research Council Fellowship and studied at the University of Chicago in 1928 and 1929 . From 1930 to 1936 she was an assistant professor in the mathematics department at the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College at Tulane University in New Orleans , Louisiana . In 1934 and 1935 she was on leave to do research at Bryn Mawr College as an Emmy Noether Fellow. Along with Ruth Stauffer , Grace Shover Quinn and Olga Taussky-Todd, she was one of four doctoral and post-graduate students who studied with Emmy Noether . After two years as an assistant professor at Vassar College, she returned in 1938 as a professor at the H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • 1928: Primitive groups which contain substitutions of prime order p and of degree 6p or 7p. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 30: 333-59
  • 1930: The limit of transitivity of a substitution group. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 32: 262-83
  • 1931: Review of Elementary Theory of Finite Groups, by LC Mathewson. Amer. Math. Monthly 38: 279-80.
  • 1934: On simply transitive primitive groups. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 40: 401-405
  • 1936: Fundamental systems of units in normal fields. Amer. J. Math. 58: 249-54
  • 1939: Algebra for the undergraduate. Amer. Math. Monthly 46: 635-42
  • 1940: Genius and youth in mathematics. Sigma Delta Epsilon Newsl. Presented to Sigma Delta Epsilon, Columbus, OH, 28 Dec 1939
  • 1949: Higher Algebra for the Undergraduate. New York: John Wiley and Sons

literature

  • Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5
  • David E. Zitarelli: A History of Mathematics in the United States and Canada: Volume 1: 1492–1900, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4704-4829-5
  • Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie; Joy Dorothy Harvey: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L – Z, 2000, ISBN 978-0-415-92038-4

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personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Marie Johanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Eugene (California)
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 1952
Place of death San Francisco