Ruth Goulding Wood

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Ruth Goulding Wood (born January 29, 1875 in Pawtucket Rhode Island , † May 5, 1939 ) was an American mathematician and university teacher. She was a member of the American Mathematical Society and did research in the field of non-Euclidean geometry .

life and work

Wood graduated from Smith College and received her bachelor's degree in 1898. She received her PhD in mathematics from Yale University in 1901 with a thesis on "Non-Euclidean Displacements and Symmetry Transformations," which was published in the Annals of Mathematics . She then taught math for a year at Mount Holyoke College and returned to Smith College in 1902. Before she was appointed Associate Professor, she spent a year doing postgraduate studies at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . After her return in 1909 she was appointed associate professor and in 1914 full professor. She traveled to Egypt , Greece , Turkey and retired in 1935. In 1936 she drove over the Panama Canal to California and in 1937 by car over the Andes to South America . In her will, she set up a trust fund to support one or more professors in the math department of Smith College with a salary equal to the highest salary paid to a faculty member.

literature

  • Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie, Joy Dorothy Harvey: The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z, 2003, p. 1395, ISBN 9781135963439 .
  • Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's, 2009
  • Bailey, Martha J .: American Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary, ABC-CLIO, 1994
  • Fenster, Della D., Karen H. Parshall: "Women in the American Mathematical Research Community: 1891-1906" in The History of Modern Mathematics, Vol. III, E. Knobloch and D. Rowe, Editors. Academic Press, Inc., pp. 229-261.
  • Mary Elizabeth Williams Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College
  • Helen Brewster Owens Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College
  • Woman's Who's Who of America: A biographical dictionary of contemporary women of the United States and Canade, 1914–1915. Edited by John William Leonard, American Commonwealth, 1914
  • Oertel, Hans; Schuchert, Charles; Underwood, Clara Beatrice: Doctors of Philosophy of Yale University: With the Titles of Their Dissertations, 1861-1915, Yale University, 1916, p. 70
  • Singer, Sandra L .: Adventures Abroad: North American Women at German-speaking Universities, 1868-1915, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 86, 2003, ISBN 9780313323713

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personal data
SURNAME Goulding Wood, Ruth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Pawtucket , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1939