Английская Википедия:Helen Abbot Merrill
Шаблон:Short description Helen Abbot Merrill (1864 – 1949) was an American mathematician, educator and textbook author.[1]
Biography
Merrill was born on March 30, 1864, in Llewellyn Park, New Jersey;[2] her father was a New Jersey insurance claims adjustor of colonial stock. She moved to Massachusetts as a child. She entered Wellesley College in 1882, intending to major in Greek and Latin, but switching to mathematics after one year, and graduated in 1886.[2] In 1893 she began teaching at Wellesley while also studying and guest lecturing abroad. In 1903 she earned a PhD in mathematics at Yale under the direction of James Pierpont. In 1920 she was appointed vice-president of the Mathematical Association of America. Upon her retirement from Wellesley, she was given the title professor emerita.
At Wellesley, Merrill wrote two textbooks with Clara Eliza Smith, Selected Topics in Higher Algebra (Norwood, 1914) and A First Course in Higher Algebra (Macmillan, 1917).[3][4] She also wrote as a popularizer a book titled Mathematical Excursions in 1933.[5]
Bibliography
- C. Henrion "Helen Abbot Merrill" in Women of Mathematics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook L. Grinstein, P. Campbell, ed.s New York: Greenwood Press (1987): 147 - 151
References
External links
- Шаблон:MathGenealogy
- Шаблон:Cite book Biography on p. 415-418 of the Supplementary Material at AMS
- File:Woman s Who s who of America.pdf, 1914, p. 557 (= p. 546 in Pdf)
- ↑ Helen Abbot Merrill - Agnes Scott College
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:Citation
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- ↑ Reviews of A First Course in Higher Algebra:
- ↑ Reviews of Mathematical Excursions:
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