Suzan Rose Benedict

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Signed photograph of Suzan Benedict in Smith College yearbook 1922

Suzan Rose Benedict (born November 29, 1873 in Norwalk , Connecticut , † April 8, 1942 in Northampton , Massachusetts ) was an American mathematician and university professor . She became the first woman to receive her PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1914 .

life and work

Benedict attended high school in Norwalk and studied chemistry from 1891 to 1895 at Smith College in Northampton, with minor subjects in mathematics, German and physics . After graduating in 1895, she returned to Norwalk and taught math for the next 10 years. In 1905 she studied at the Teachers College of Columbia University , where she received a Master of Arts in 1906 . She then became an assistant in mathematics in the mathematics department of Smith College. From 1911 to 1913 she studied at the University of Michigan and took a leave of absence from Smith College to complete the dissertation supervised by Louis Charles Karpinski in 1914. The title of the dissertation was: A Comparative Study of the Early Treatises Introducing Into Europe the Hindu Art of Reckoning. In 1914 she became an associate professor at Smith College, in 1921 a professor and from 1928 to 1934 chair of the department of mathematics. In 1942, at the age of 68, she retired as a professor emeritus and then worked as a volunteer with the Red Cross .

Memberships

Publications

  • 1909: "The Development of Algebraic Symbolism from Paciuolo to Newton." School Science and Mathematics. Published version of MA thesis
  • 1929: “The Algebra of Francesco Ghaligai”, American Mathematical Monthly

literature

  • Judy Green, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 .
  • David E. Zitarelli: A History of Mathematics in the United States and Canada: Volume 1: 1492–1900, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4704-4829-5 .
  • "Suzan Rose Benedict, In Memoriam," Smith Alumnae Quarterly, April 1942, 185-186.
  • 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 Canada, 1914-1915. John William Leonard, Editor-in-Chief, American Commonwealth Company, 1914.

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personal data
SURNAME Benedict, Suzan Rose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Norwalk , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1942
Place of death Northampton , Massachusetts