Sally Elizabeth Carlson

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Sally Elizabeth Carlson (born October 2, 1896 in Minneapolis , United States , † November 1, 2000 ) was an American mathematician and university professor. She became the first woman to graduate from the University of Minnesota in mathematics in 1924 .

life and work

Carlson was born in Minneapolis as the third of five children to Swedish immigrants. She graduated from South High School in 1913, received her bachelor's degree in 1917 and her master's degree from the University of Minnesota in 1918. She then taught at McIntosh High School in Northern Minnesota for 9 months. From 1919 to 1920 she was a lecturer in mathematics and physics at Knox College in Illinois and in 1920 returned to the University of Minnesota, where she worked as a teaching assistant in mathematics. There she did her doctorate in 1924 under Dunham Jackson with the dissertation: On The Convergence of Certain Methods of Closest Approximation. She remained in Minnesota as a professor emeritus until her retirement in 1965. From 1924 to 1928 she was a trainer, from 1928 to 1950 assistant professor, from 1950 to 1963 associate professor and from 1963 to 1965 professor. In 1962 she received a Distinguished Teacher Award. She died at the age of 104 in the Augustana Home of Minneapolis

Publications

  • 1924: Extension of Bernstein's theorem to Sturm-Liouville sums. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 26: 230-40.
  • 1926: On the convergence of certain methods of closest approximation. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 28: 435-47.
  • 1926: On the convergence of trigonometric approximations for a function of two variables. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 32: 639-41.

Memberships

literature

  • Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 .
  • Her, Lucy Y. “Former: 'U' Math Prof. Sally Elizabeth Carlson Dies at Age 104,” Minneapolis Star Tribune, Nov 3, 2000.

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personal data
SURNAME Carlson, Sally Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carlson, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 2, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 2000
Place of death Minneapolis