Rose Whelan Sedgewick

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Rose Whelan Sedgewick (born June 16, 1903 in Brockton (Massachusetts) , United States , † June 7, 2000 in Dunedin , Florida ) was an American mathematician and university professor. She was the first woman to receive her PhD in mathematics from Brown University in 1929 .

life and work

Whelan was born the fifth of six children and attended public schools in Brockton, Massachusetts. After graduating from Brockton High School, she began studying at Brown University Women's College in 1921 and received a bachelor's degree in 1925 . From 1925 to 1926 she was a part-time assistant at Brown University in the math department and taught at Women's College before graduating with a Masters in 1927. She returned to Brown University on the Arnold Scholarship and also taught an undergraduate department at Women's College while studying. She received her PhD in mathematics under Jacob David Tamarkin in 1929 as the first woman at Brown University with her dissertation: Approximate Solutions of Certain General Types of Boundary Value Problems. She was then an assistant professor at the University of Rochester until 1934 , from 1943 to 1956 at the University of Connecticut , from 1955 to 1958 at Hillyer College (now part of the University of Hartford ) and from 1958 to 1969 at the University of Maryland . In 1932 she married the mathematician Charles Hill Wallace Sedgewick, with whom she had 4 children. The Rose Whelan Society was founded in 2001 as an organization for undergraduate and postdoctoral students in mathematics and applied mathematics at Brown University.

publication

  • 1929: Approximate solutions of certain general types of boundary problems from the standpoint of integral equations. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 35: 105-22.

Memberships

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 Sedgewick, Rose Whelan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Whelan, Rose (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Brockton, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2000
Place of death Dunedin , Florida