Marion Ballantyne White

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Marion Ballantyne White (born March 1871 in Peoria (Illinois) , United States , † January 30, 1958 in Pasadena , California ) was an American mathematician and university professor.

life and work

White was born the third of five children to the Scottish teacher Jennie E. McLaren and the headmaster Samuel Holmes White. After the precollege in Peoria she was a student at Smith College in 1988 and after a year taught at a public school in Peoria. From 1890 to 1893 she studied at the University of Michigan , where she received a Bachelor of Philosophy in 1893 . She then taught at Pueblo (Colorado) high school for two years , then at Peoria High School . From 1901 to 1908 she taught at the University of Illinois and received her Masters in 1906 from the University of Wisconsin . From 1908 to 1910 she did her doctorate under Gilbert Ames Bliss as the third doctoral student in mathematics at the University of Chicago with the dissertation: The Dependence of the Focal Point on Curvature in Space Problems of the Calculus of Variations . She taught as an assistant professor from 1910 to 1918 at the University of Kansas and then until 1930 at Carleton College in Northfield (Minnesota) . Here she was dean of women from 1922 to 1924 and was appointed associate professor in 1930. Upon her retirement in 1937, she moved to Pasadena, California, where she spent the last two decades of her life.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • 1907: The asymptotic lines on the anchor ring. Ann. of Math. 2nd ser., 8
  • 1912: The dependence of focal points upon curvature for problems of the calculus of variations in space. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 13
  • 2013: Asymptotic Lines on the Anchor Ring, ISBN 978-1289929688

literature

  • Janet L. Beery, Sarah J. Greenwald, Jacqueline A. Jensen-Vallin, Maura B. Mast: Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America, 2019, ISBN 978-3319883038
  • Gabriele Kass-Simon, Patricia: Women of Science: Righting the Record, 1993, ISBN 9780253208132
  • Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5
  • Proceedings of the Board of Regents (1891-1896), University of Michigan, Board of Regents

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personal data
SURNAME White, Marion Ballantyne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Peoria (Illinois)
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1958
Place of death Pasadena , California