Mayme Logsdon

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Mayme Farmer Irwin Logsdon (born February 1, 1881 in Elizabethtown (Kentucky) , † July 4, 1967 in Coral Gables , Florida ) was an American mathematician and university professor . She was the first woman and until 1982 the only woman to get a job in the math department of the University of Chicago.

Life and research

Logsdon was born the second of seven children to Judge James David Irwin and Nannie Bell Farmer. She married AH Logsdon in 1900 at the age of nineteen, who died early. She studied at the University of Chicago in 1911 and received her bachelor 's degree a year later. In 1913 she began teaching mathematics at Hastings College in Nebraska . During this time she continued her studies at the University of Chicago and received her master’s degree in 1915 . She taught math at Hastings College until 1917 and then at Northwestern College as a math teacher, then returned to the University of Chicago in 1919. She did her doctorate in 1921 under Leonard Eugene Dickson with the dissertation: Equivalence and Reduction af Pairs of Hermitian Forms. Her work was published in 1922 in the American Journal of Mathematics , Vol. 3. From 1921 until her retirement in 1946, she taught at the University of Chicago. She was promoted to assistant professor in 1925 and made associate professor in 1930. In 1924 and 1925 she studied in Rome as a scholarship holder of the International Education Board. Her graduate students at the University of Chicago included Anna Stafford (Henriques), James Edward Case, Clyde Harvey Graves, and Frank Ayres . During this time she also became interested in basic education in mathematics and wrote not only lectures in this area but also two textbooks. After her retirement, she taught at the University of Miami in Florida for another 15 years .

Memberships

Publications

  • 1922: Equivalence and reduction of pairs of Hermitian forms. Amer. J. Math. 44: 247-60.
  • 1925: Complete groups of points on a plane cubic curve of genus one. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 27.
  • 1929: König and Kraft's Elliptic Functions. Review of Elliptic Functions, by R. König and M. Kraft. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 35.
  • 1932-33: Elementary Mathematical Analysis. 2 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co.
  • 1935: A Mathematician Explains. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
  • 1938: Geometries. Amer. Math. Monthly 45.
  • 1925: Cross ratios in the complex plane. Amer. Math. Monthly 32.
  • 1927: Algebraic geometry and the Italians. Amer. Math. Monthly 34.
  • 1927: Conditions for mathematical study in Italy. Amer. Math. Monthly 34.
  • 1927: Curves in r-space invariant under a net of homographies containing the identity. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33.
  • 1927: A hypersurface in S4 invariant under the general projective group of points on a line. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33.
  • 1931: Reorganization of material for freshman mathematics. Amer. Math. Monthly 38.
  • 1936: The mathematics which is included in the physical science general course at the University of Chicago under the new plan. Amer. Math. Monthly 43.
  • 1937: The logical structure of four-dimensional space. Amer. Math. Monthly 44.

literature

  • Judy Green and Jeanne LaDuke. "Contributors to American Mathematics," in Women of Science, G. Kass-Simon and Patricia Farnes, eds., Indiana Univ. Press 1990.
  • Fennster, Della Dumbaugh. "Role Modeling in Mathematics: The Case of Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874-1954)," Historia Mathematica 24 (1), February 1997, 14-15.
  • American Men of Science: A Biographical Directory, Jaques Cattell, Editor, Science Press, 1949.

Helen Brewster Owens Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.

  • Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (2000-01-01). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: LZ. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415920407 .
  • Dick Meister, Ken Martin, and the Historical Society of Ogden Dunes (2014). Ogden Dunes: Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 1467111899 .CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2008). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics - The Pre-1940 PhD's. History of Mathematics. 34 (1st ed.). American Mathematical Society, The London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Logsdon, Mayme
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farmer Irwin Logsdon, Mayme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Elizabethtown, Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1967
Place of death Coral Gables , Florida