Marie Litzinger

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Marie Paula Litzinger (born May 8, 1899 in Bedford, Pennsylvania , † April 7, 1952 ) was an American mathematician and university professor . She did research on number theory , homogeneous polynomials and modular arithmetic .

Life and research

Litzinger attended elementary and secondary school in Bedford and graduated from high school in 1916. From 1916 to 1923 she attended Bryn Mawr College , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1920 and her master's degree in 1922 . From 1923 to 1924 she attended courses from Guido Castelnuovo , Federigo Enriques and Vito Volterra at the University of Rome . The following year she taught at the Greenwich Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut . In 1925 she became an instructor at Mount Holyoke College , Massachusetts, and in 1928 an assistant professor. She did her doctorate in 1934 at the University of Chicago under Leonard Eugene Dickson with the dissertation: A Basis for Residual Polynomials in n Variables. In 1937 she was promoted to associate professor at Mount Holyoke College and in 1942 to professor. In 1948 she received a chair in mathematics from the John Stewart Kennedy Foundation.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • 1935 A basis for residual polynomials in n variables. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 37.
  • 1949 Real numbers for freshmen. Math. Mag. 22.

literature

  • Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L – Z. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415920407 .
  • Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne: "Litzinger, Marie, May 14, 1899 – April 7, 1952", Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's, History of Mathematics, 34, American Mathematical Society, pp. 230-231, ISBN 9780821843765 .
  • Riddle, Larry: "Marie Litzinger," Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College, 2015.
  • Louise Ginstein: "Some 'Forgotten' Women of Mathematics: A Who Was Who," Philosophia Mathematica 13/14 (1976/77), 73-78.
  • Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Summer 1952, p12.
  • Helen Brewster Owens Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.
  • Obituaries: New York Times, April 8, 1952, and New York Herald Tribune, April 8, 1952.

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personal data
SURNAME Litzinger, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Litzinger, Marie Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedford, Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1952