Category Archives: Math

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.

Flora Philip was a Scottish mathematician who studied at Edinburgh University and was among the first women to receive a degree there when they changed the rules. She was the first woman member of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.

Charlotte Angas Scott studied at Cambridge but was not allowed to take her degree. After graduate work at Cambridge she became the first Head of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania USA.

Mary Warner was a Welsh mathematician who was a pioneer in fuzzy mathematics.

Ruth Michler was an American mathematician who became an expert in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. She organised several special sessions at meetings of the American Mathematical Society. She was killed in a road accident in Boston at the age of 33.

Sylvia Skan was an English applied mathematician who worked on fluid dynamics and aerodynamics. For most of her career, she worked for the Aerodynamics Department of the National Physical Laboratory. She wrote many papers and the two volume book Handbook for computers.