Miriam Becker Mazur

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Miriam Becker Mazur (born March 30, 1909 in New York City , New York ; † March 5, 2000 ibid) was an American mathematician and university professor.

Life and research

Becker Mazur was born as the eldest of three children of Lena Silvermann, who emigrated from Russia, and of father Joseph David Becker from Austria. She studied mathematics at Hunter College and received her bachelor's degree in 1930 and her master's degree in 1931 . With a university scholarship , she began to study mathematics at Yale University in 1932 . During her time at Yale, she was awarded a Susan Rhoda Cutler Fellowship in Mathematics in 1932 and was elected to Sigma Xi in 1933. She did her doctorate in 1934 with Øystein Ore with the dissertation: On Relative Fields . In 1934 she was appointed tutor at Hunter College, where she taught for three years. After leaving Hunter College, she did research at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton from 1937 to 1938. The work she did there resulted in a joint publication with Saunders Mac Lane , who was on a scholarship from Yale University. In 1938 she returned to New York City and taught at George Washington High School, a public high school in Manhattan . In 1940 she married Abraham Mazur, who had a doctorate in biochemistry, with whom she had a daughter and a son.
In 1941 she was transferred to the Samuel Gompers Technical High School in the Bronx. After raising children, she returned to teaching in 1954 and spent the next eleven years at Brooklyn Technical High School . In 1964 she applied for a position at the City College of New York , was promoted to assistant professor in 1964 and to associate professor in 1972. She taught there until she retired in 1977.

Memberships

Publications (selection)

  • 1940: with S. Mac Lane: The minimum number of generators for inseparable algebraic extensions. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 46.

literature

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

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personal data
SURNAME Becker Mazur, Miriam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Becker, Miriam Freda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 2000
Place of death New York City , New York