Category Archives: Math

Karen Smith is an American mathematician who works on commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. She is the Keeler Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. She won the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics for her development of tight closure methods in commutative algebra and especially for her application of these methods in algebraic geometry.

Ethel Elderton was a statistician who worked for Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. Although her work was an important contribution applying statistics to social problems, much of it makes difficult reading today because it is written with a eugenic perspective.

Christine Hamill was an English mathematician who specialised in group theory and finite geometry.

Doris Schattschneider is an American mathematician who became professor of mathematics at the Moravian College. She was the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine and won many awards for her excellence in expository writing.

Dorothy Foster studied at Bedford College and was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of London in 1960. Except for a few years as an Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics at Royal Holloway College, London, she spent her whole career at the University of St Andrews. She was an expert on geometric number theory.

Dusa McDuff is an English mathematician who works on symplectic geometry.