Category Archives: Math

Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar was an American mathematician and author of mathematics books.

Eleanor Pairman graduated from Edinburgh. She went to London where she worked with Karl Pearson and then went to the USA where she gained a doctorate from Radcliffe College.

Elizabeth Scott was an American mathematician who worked in statistics.

Elizabeth Fennema is an American mathematician who worked on mathematical education. She was received many honours such as the first Annual Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research on Women and Education from the American Educational Research Association, and the Dora Helen Skypek Award from the Association for Women and Mathematics Education.

Emilie Martin was an American mathematician and professor of mathematics at Mount Holyoke College. Her research focused on primitive substitution groups.

Mary Simpson graduated from Edinburgh and then took up a post at Queen’s College Dundee.

Winifred Lydia Caunden Sargent was an English mathematician who worked in Lebesgue integration, and fractional integration and differentiation.

Margaret Boyle graduated from St Andrews and taught mathematics at Dalkeith High School.

Frances Wood was an English chemist and statistician who became a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1913. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1917, and an officer in the order in 1918.