Английская Википедия:Helen F. Cullen

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Шаблон:Short description Helen Frances Cullen (January 4, 1919 – August 25, 2007)Шаблон:R was an American mathematician specializing in topology. She worked for many years as a professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts AmherstШаблон:R and was the first female faculty member in the mathematics department at Amherst.Шаблон:R She was known as the author of the book Introduction to General Topology (Heath, 1968),Шаблон:R as well as for her outspoken antisemitism.Шаблон:R

Education and career

Cullen was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and studied at Girls' Latin School and Radcliffe College.Шаблон:R She earned a master's degree at the University of Michigan in 1944,Шаблон:R and completed her Ph.D. at Michigan in 1950. Her dissertation, A Set of Parabolic Regular Curve Families Filling the Plane and Certain Related Reimann Surfaces, was supervised by Wilfred Kaplan.Шаблон:R She was a faculty member in the department of mathematics at Amherst from 1949 until her retirement as a professor emerita in 1992.Шаблон:R

Recognition

In 1998 the Girls' Latin School – Boston Latin Academy Association listed her as one of their outstanding alumnae.Шаблон:R

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