Английская Википедия:Doris Stockton

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Шаблон:Short description Doris G. Skillman Stockton (1924–2018) was an American mathematician specializing in partial differential equations and Banach spaces, and known for her many mathematics textbooks. For many years she was a professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Шаблон:R

Education and career

Stockton entered the New Jersey College for Women at Rutgers in 1941. Initially planning to study dramatic arts, she was persuaded to switch to mathematics and physics so that she could more directly contribute to the World War II efforts.Шаблон:R

She completed her Ph.D. at Brown University in 1958, with the dissertation Singular Parabolic Partial Differential Equations with Time Dependent Coefficients, supervised by Joanne Elliott.Шаблон:R

She joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut but, soon after, moved to the University of Massachusetts.Шаблон:R After working for 52 years on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Stockton retired in 2006.Шаблон:R

Personal life

Stockton was born on February 9, 1924, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.Шаблон:R She was married to Frederick D. Stockton (1920–2015), an associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Massachusetts.Шаблон:R She died on December 13, 2018, in Avon, Connecticut.Шаблон:R

Books

Stockton was the author of 11 textbooks and workbooks, including:

• Elements of Mathematics (2nd ed., with Helen Murray Roberts, 1956)Шаблон:R
• Essential Mathematics (Scott & Foresman, 1972)Шаблон:R
• Essential Algebra (1973)Шаблон:R
• Essential Algebra with Functions (1973)Шаблон:R
• Essential Algebra and Trigonometry (Houghton Mifflin, 1978)
• Essential Precalculus (Houghton Mifflin, 1978)
• Essential College Algebra (Houghton Mifflin, 1979)