Rachel Blodgett Adams

Rachel Blodgett Adams (born October 13, 1894 in Woburn (Massachusetts) , † January 22, 1982 in Providence , Rhode Island ) was an American mathematician and university professor . She was among the first women to graduate from Radcliffe College in mathematics in 1921.

Life and research

Adams was born Rachel Blodgett, the eldest of three children, and attended public high school from 1899 to 1908 and then Woburn High School until 1912. She then studied mathematics and Latin at Wellesley College and received her bachelor's degree in 1916 . She attended Harvard Summer School in 1916 and was employed as a math teacher at Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School in Montreal , Quebec from 1916 to 1918 . She then studied at Radcliffe College and received her Masters degree in 1919 . There she had an Edward Austin Fellowship for at least two years and a Mary E. Horton Fellowship in 1921. She received her doctorate in 1921 with the dissertation: The determination of the coefficients in interpolation formulas; and A study of the approximate solution of integral equations. From 1921 to 1922 she taught as a math teacher at Wellesley College. In 1922 she married the mathematician Clarence Raymond Adams and traveled with him to Rome and Göttingen until 1923 . She was a member of the MAA a year after their marriage and worked as a tutor at Radcliffe College from 1926 to 1941, as did Mary Graustein . During the Second World War it was registered in Washington with the National Roster of Scientific. During their marriage, she and her husband traveled by car in the United States and Europe. From her estate, the Blodgett Fund was established, with which Wellesley College should award scholarships.

Memberships

Publications

1929: On the approximate solution of Fredholm's homogeneous integral equation. Amer. J. Math. 51: 139-48.

literature

"Rachel B. Adams." (Obituary) Providence Sunday Journal, Jan 24, 1982.

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personal data
SURNAME	Blodgett Adams, Rachel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Blodgett, Rachel (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Woburn, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH	January 22, 1982
Place of death	Providence , Rhode Island