Mollie Orshansky
Mollie Orshansky was an American economist and statistician who developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, used for measuring household incomes.
Mollie Orshansky was an American economist and statistician who developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, used for measuring household incomes.
Margaret Rayner was a British mathematician who did important work on isoperimetric inequalities, mathematical education, and the history of mathematics. She became vice principal of St Hilda’s College, Oxford and president of the Mathematical Association.
Nora Calderwood graduated from Edinburgh University and went on to a lectureship at Birmingham University. A prize in algebra at Birmingham is named after her.
Marguerite Lehr was an outstanding lecturer and, as one of the first to present a course of mathematics on television in 1952-53, she was in great demand both as a lecturer and as a consultant for presenting mathematics on film or TV.
Mary Celine Fasenmyer was an American mathematician known for her work on hypergeometric functions and linear algebra.
Marjorie Senechal is an American mathematician who worked on tessellations and quasicrystals. She won the Mathematical Association of America’s Carl B Allendoerfer Award for excellence in expository writing in Mathematics Magazine for her article, Which Tetrahedra Fill Space? Her book American Silk 1830-1930 won the Millia Davenport Publication Award of the Costume Society of America.
Marion Gray was a Scottish mathematician who went to Bryn Mawr College in the USA. The Gray graph is named after her.
Mary Everest Boole was an English mathematician who was married to George Boole. She wrote a number of books on mathematical education.
Mary Cannell was an English mathematician and historian who worked extensively on George Green.
Mary Ellen Rudin was an American mathematician known for herwork in general topology.