Pauline Sperry

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Pauline Sperry (born March 5, 1885 in Peabody , Massachusetts , † September 24, 1967 in Pacific Grove , California ) was an American mathematician .

She was from Peabody, Essex County . She graduated from Smith College . In 1906 she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa . For a few years she then worked as a teacher at Smith College. From 1913 she studied mathematics at the University of Chicago and did her Ph.D. there in 1916. Sigma Xi honored her afterwards. She then taught for another year at Smith College. Her academic career began in 1917 at the University of California, Berkeley . There she became the first assistant professor in 1923. She worked in the fields of analytical geometry and differential geometry . Like Hans Lewy , she got into trouble during the McCarthy era and was suspended in 1950, but was formally reinstated by court order in 1952, although she had now reached retirement age. Politically, she actively advocated Quakerism and against nuclear weapon tests . She founded the Step by Step school in Port-au-Prince , Haiti , where children were taught and provided with food. She died in Pacific Grove.

literature

  • Paul Campbell, Louise Grinstein: Women of Mathematics: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook, 1987, ISBN 978-0313248498

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SURNAME Sperry, Pauline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Peabody , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1967
Place of death Pacific Grove , California