Vivienne Malone-Mayes

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Vivienne Malone-Mayes, 1948

Vivienne Lucille Malone-Mayes (born February 10, 1932 in Waco , Texas , † June 9, 1995 ibid) was an African American mathematician and university professor. She was the first African American faculty member at Baylor University and the first African American person to be elected to the Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics . She was the fifth African American woman allowed to enter the White House.

life and career

Malone-Mayes graduated from AJ Moore High School in 1948 and then studied at Fisk University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 and a master's degree in 1954. She then headed the math department at Paul Quinn College for seven years and then Bishop College for a year . She was denied admission to Baylor University, which is why she attended summer courses at the University of Texas instead . She was not allowed to attend Professor Robert Lee Moore's lectures and was unable to attend off-campus sessions because they were held in a coffee shop that Texan law did not allow African-Americans to enter. In 1966 she did her doctorate with Donald Elton Edmondson at the University of Texas with the dissertation A Structure Problem in Asymptotic Analysis . She was then hired as a full-time professor in the math faculty at Baylor University. Her research was so innovative that she qualified for federal grants to support her work and became a full professor. She served on the board of directors of the National Association of Mathematicians , was elected director general for the Texas section of the Mathematical Association of America , and was director of the high school lecture program for the Texas section. In 1952 she married James Mayes and they had one daughter.

Publications (selection)

  • Mayes, Vivienne: A structure problem in asymptotic analysis, Dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1966
  • Mayes, Vivienne: Some steady state properties of , Proc Amer Math Soc, v. 22, pp. 672-677, 1969
  • Mayes, Vivienne; Rolf, Howard: Pre-calculus, Independent Learning Systems, San Rafael, 1977
  • Mayes, Vivienne; Soasta, David; Conoley, Patrick: Experiment with audio-tutorial pre-calculus, Amer Math Monthly, v. 82, pp. 510-514, 1975
  • Mayes, Vivienne: Black and Female, AWM Newsletter, v. 5, no. 6, pp. 4-6, 1975
  • Mayes, Vivienne, Lee Lorch at Fisk: A tribute, Amer Math Monthly, v. 83, pp. 708-711, 1976
  • Mayes, Vivienne; Brigham, Lucille; McNeill, Sarah Virginia: Student attitudes toward an audio-visual presentation of pre-calculus, Math Teacher, v. 70, pp. 229-231, 1977
  • Mayes, Vivienne; Rhoades, BE: Some properties of the Leininger generalized Hausdorf matrix, Houston J. Math., V. 6, pp. 287-299, 1980

literature

  • Henrion, Claudia. Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference, Indiana University Press, pp. 193-211, 1997
  • Houston, Johnny, Spotlight on a mathematician, NAM Newsletter, 1995.
  • Mayes, Vivienne Malone: ​​"Black and Female," in Complexities: Women in Mathematics, Bettye Anne Case and Anne Leggett, Editors, Princeton University Press, pp. 178-181, 2005
  • Olson, Judith; Kay Wohlhuter, "Vivian Malone-Mayes," in Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary, Charlene Morrow; Teri Perl, Greenwood Press, pp. 133-137, 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Malone-Mayes, Vivienne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malone, Vivienne Lucille (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Waco , Texas
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1995
Place of death Waco , Texas