Marjorie Beaty

Marjorie Louise Heckel Beaty (born January 21, 1906 in Buffalo , New York (state) , † July 18, 2002 in Vermillion (South Dakota) ) was an American mathematician and university professor. Together with Louise Rosenbaum, she was one of the first two women to receive a PhD in mathematics from the University of Colorado before 1960.

Life and research

Beaty was born as Marjorie Louise Heckel, attended elementary school and high school in Buffalo for a year . She moved with her family to Rochester, New York , where she graduated from high school. She studied mathematics at the University of Rochester with a state scholarship and received in 1928 her Bachelor Accounts, 1929 the Master Accounts. She continued her studies at Brown University until 1931, where she was also an assistant. She then became an instructor at the University of South Dakota , where she met the rancher W. Beaty (1903-1979) and married in 1933. Since only one household member was allowed to work during the Depression, she resigned from the university. However, because the university needed another math teacher, it volunteered to teach in 1934 and 1935. She studied at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1935 to 1938 , in her first year as a university fellow and teaching assistant, as a research fellow in her second year, and as a teaching assistant in her third year. She did her doctorate in 1939 with Aubrey J. Kempner at the University of Colorado with the dissertation: On the Complex Roots of Algebraic Equations. She then returned to the math faculty at the University of South Dakota and was assistant professor from 1938 to 1941. After the birth of her daughters, she took parental leave and they returned to the department in 1955, was promoted to associate professor in 1958 and professor in 1961. She retired in 1976 but taught at Yankton College for several years after her retirement. She received the Outstanding Educator of America award in 1974. She and her late husband received the Inman Award from the University of South Dakota in 1998.

Memberships

• American Mathematical Society
• Sigma Delta Epsilon
• American Association of University Women
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Sigma Xi
• Pi Mu Epsilon

Publications (selection)

• 1958: with JA Martin: Space dualization of a system involving three mutually perspective triangles. Proc. South Dakota Acad. Sci. 37.
• 1959: with DL Henderson: Study based on the trilinear coordinate system. Proc. South Dakota Acad. Sci. 38.

literature

• Jones and Thron: A History of the Mathematics Departments of the University of Colorado
• Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 .

Web links

• Marjorie Beaty in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
• Biography at AMS
• Photo by Mrs. Marjorie Beaty