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Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
Anna Haywood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1858, the daughter of a slave woman and her white master.
She earned her bachelor of arts degree in 1884.
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Charlotte Barnum
Charlotte Cynthia Barnum was born in Phillipston, Massachusetts.
In 1892 she moved to Yale University, where her father had studied, and in 1895 she became the first of three women to receive Ph.D.'s in mathematics from Yale before 1900. -
Louise Duffield Cummings
She received her B.A. (1895) with First Class Honors in Mathematics from the University of Toronto.
year 1895-96 was spent in graduate study under the direction of Professor DeLury of Toronto University.
In 1896-97 Cummings held a fellowship in mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. -
Florence Eliza Allen
She received her undergraduate and master degrees at the University of Wisconsin in 1900.
Her thesis was entitled "The cycle involutions of third order determined by nets of curves of deficiency 0, 1, and 2."
In 1907 she became the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. -
Elizabeth Ruth Bennett
First women to recive her Ph.D from the university of Illinois and the second Ph.D overall from that department.She recived her A.B. degree in 1903 from the Ohio University in Athens, OH. She recived a thesis on Primitive groups with a determination of the primitive groups of degree 20. -
Ruth Aaronson Bari
She recived a masters degree at John Hopkins in in 1943,m but because of work and family responabilities she did not get her Ph.D untill 1966.She died in 2005 of complications from Alzheimer's disease. -
Joan S. Birman
Recived her B.A in 1948 at Barnard College of Columbia University.
she recived an M.S. in physics from Columbia in 1950.
That same year she married Joesph Birman, a theoretical physicist. -
Vera Pless
Vera Pless was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago and received her Ph.D from Northwestern in 1957 .
Parts of this work was published in the Duke Mathematical Journal in 1958.
She joined the University of Illinois-Chicago's department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science as a full professor in 1975 and taught there until her retirement. -
Evelyn M. Nelson
Evelyn began her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto in the Mathematics-Physics-Chemistry honors program, then transferred to McMaster University after two years.
In 1970 she received her Ph.D., also from McMaster University.
Her Ph.D. thesis, completed only a few months after the birth of her first child, was on "The lattice of equational classes of commutative semigroups. -
Fan Chung
She recived her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 with a thesis on Ramsey Numbers in Multi-Colors.
In 1994 she returned to the University of Pennsylvania as the Class of 1965 Professor of Mathematics.
After that she went to the University of California at San Diego in 1998 as Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering.
