Английская Википедия:Frances Ellen Baker
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Use list-defined references Frances Ellen Baker (1902–1995) was an American mathematician who became a professor of mathematics and chair of the mathematics department at Vassar College.
Early life and education
Baker's father was Richard Philip Baker, a British-born mathematician, mathematical model maker, and college administrator. Her mother, Katherine Riedelbauch Baker, was a music teacher and chamber musician. Baker was born on December 19, 1902, in Anna, Illinois, and was home-schooled until high school, where she attended a public school in Iowa City, Iowa. She became valedictorian of her school, graduating in 1919.Шаблон:R
At the University of Iowa, where her father had become a mathematics professor, she studied classics and mathematics, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1923. She continued on as a graduate student, working with her father in mathematics and completing a master's degree in 1925.Шаблон:R
After completing her master's degree, Baker became head of the mathematics and physics department at Tabor College in Iowa in 1925, but the college closed in 1927. After briefly teaching at Jefferson City Junior College in Missouri, she earned a teaching certificate from the University of Iowa in 1928, and took courses at the University of Chicago beginning in 1929. She entered the university as a full-time student in 1931, and completed her Ph.D. in 1934.Шаблон:R Her dissertation, A Contribution to the Waring Problem for Cubic Functions, concerned a variation of Waring's problem in number theory, on representing integers as sums of the values of a cubic polynomial;Шаблон:R it was supervised by Leonard Eugene Dickson.Шаблон:R Both Dickson and Richard Baker, in turn, had been students of the same doctoral advisor, E. H. Moore.Шаблон:R
Later life and career
Baker's career at Vassar College began in early 1935, when she took a position as instructor there. In late 1935 she moved to Mount Holyoke College as an assistant professor.Шаблон:R
In 1942, Baker returned to Vassar, where her sister, mycologist Gladys Elizabeth Baker, had joined the faculty in 1940. Baker was re-hired at Vassar as an associate professor of mathematics;Шаблон:R she was promoted to full professor in 1951,Шаблон:R and chaired the mathematics department for two terms, from 1948 to 1950 and 1951 to 1952. She retired as a professor emerita in 1968.Шаблон:R In her work as a mathematics professor, she was "particularly involved with honor students", both individually and as faculty mentor of student honor societies.Шаблон:R She also gave public lectures about her father's models.Шаблон:R
In her retirement, Baker rejoined her sister in Sun City, Arizona.Шаблон:R She died on April 4, 1995, in Peoria, Arizona.Шаблон:R
Legacy
A doctoral hood worn by Baker is in the collection of the National Museum of American History, with photographs of Baker.Шаблон:R
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- Английская Википедия
- 1902 births
- 1995 deaths
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- American women mathematicians
- University of Iowa alumni
- University of Chicago alumni
- Vassar College faculty
- Mount Holyoke College faculty
- 20th-century American women scientists
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