Mary Barbara Haberzetle

Mary Barbara Haberzetle (born June 4, 1912 in Chicago , † November 16, 1983 in Seattle ) was an American mathematician and university professor.

Life and research

Haberzetle was born the first of two daughters and received her elementary and secondary education in Chicago parish schools run by the School Sisters of Notre Dame. From 1930 to 1934 she studied mathematics at Saint Xavier College for Women (now Saint Xavier University ) and passed her bachelor's degree with distinction. She then worked for the County Welfare Department until 1935 and began studying at the University of Chicago , where she received her master's degree in 1936 . The next two years she was a scholarship holder and did her doctorate in 1938 under Leonard Eugene Dickson with the dissertation: Two New Universal Waring Theorems. She taught at Mount Holyoke College in 1938 and from 1939 to 1941 at Queens College, City University of New York . Between 1937 and 1941 she published four articles. In 1940 she married the mathematician M. Jonathan Turner, with whom she had three children. After raising children, she accepted a position as an assistant professor at Seattle University in 1960 , was promoted to associate professor in 1963, and to full professor in 1971.

Publications (selection)

• 1937: Haberzetle, M .: Representation of large integers by cubic polynomials. Amer. J. Math. 59.
• 1941: Haberzetle, M .: On some partition functions. Amer. J. Math. 63.

literature

• Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 .

Web links

• Mary Barbara Haberzetle in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
• Biography at AMS