Olive Hazlett
Olive Clio Hazlett (born October 27, 1890 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † March 8, 1974 in Keene , New Hampshire ) was an American mathematician who studied algebra .
Life
Hazlett went to school in Boston and studied at Radcliffe College with a bachelor's degree in 1912 and at the University of Chicago , where she received her master's degree in 1913 and received her doctorate in 1915 under Leonard Dickson (On the Classification and Invariantive Characterization of Nilpotent Algebras ). She then did research on a Harvard scholarship at Wellesley College and was from 1916 two years at Bryn Mawr College , before she was Assistant Professor and 1924 Associate Professor at Mount Holyoke College . Wanting more time for research, she moved to the University of Illinois as an assistant professor in 1925 , where she stayed for the rest of her career. However, her teaching load was by no means less and she no longer came to research. In 1930 she became an associate professor. She regularly gave the course in modern algebra, but also had to give the math courses for non-mathematicians, which was very stressful for her. In 1936 she took a break after a nervous breakdown due to exhaustion and did not return until late 1938. In 1946 she retired from teaching for health reasons and officially retired in 1959. She then lived in Peterborough (New Hampshire) .
She wrote 17 essays on algebra (the last one appeared in 1930), mainly on nilpotent algebras, division algebras, modular invariants (invariants of the representation of finite groups in vector spaces over fields of finite characteristics, founded by Leonard Dickson ) and arithmetic of algebras. She also wrote early works on differential equations in finite characteristics. She wrote the article Quaternions for the 14th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Paul Halmos was one of her students in the 1930s (she was teaching algebra based on Bartel Leendert van der Waerden's modern algebra ).
From 1928 to 1930 she was a Guggenheim Fellow in Europe (Italy, Germany, Switzerland) . She also gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Bologna (Integers as Matrices).
From 1940 and during the Second World War, she worked for the Committee for cryptanalysis of the American Mathematical Society . In 1944/45 she was therefore absent from the university. The committee was headed by Abraham Adrian Albert .
From 1923 to 1935 she was one of the editors of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and from 1926 to 1928 on the AMS Council.
Web links
- Biography at Agnes Scott College
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Olive Hazlett. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the American Journal of Mathematics, Volume 38, 1916, pp. 109-138
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hazlett, Olive |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hazlett, Olive Clio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cincinnati , Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 8, 1974 |
| Place of death | Keene , New Hampshire |