Category Archives: Math

Annie Hutton Numbers graduated from Edinburgh University and worked in the Chemistry department in Edinburgh. She taught in schools in Ipswich and High Wycombe.

Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave studied the mathematical tripos at Girton College Cambridge. She the taught mathematics at a High School for eleven years before becoming an assistant to Karl Pearson in the Galton Laboratory of University College, London. She later became an assistant to Leonard Bairstow in the Department of Aeronautics at the Imperial College, London. She published two papers with Pearson and two with Bairstow.

Frances Evelyn Cave-Browne-Cave was home educated, then studied the mathematical tripos at the University of Cambridge, being ranked next to G H Hardy. She was the first recipient of a research grant from Girton College, worked with Karl Pearson and published two papers. She spent the rest of her career teaching at Girton College.

Beulah Russell taught mathematics at several colleges in the United States including William and Mary. She attended the Edinburgh Mathematical Society Colloquium held in St Andrews, Scotland, in 1930 becoming the first female professor to attend the St Andrews Colloquium.

Carol Karp was an American mathematical logician whose research was closely linked to algebra. She made a reputation both as a teacher and researcher, and she was undertaking important work on infinitary logic and recursion theory when she died at the age of 46.

Carolyn Eisele was a mathematician who spent her whole career teaching at Hunter College. She is famed for her work on Charles Sanders Peirce, particularly in seeing the importance of mathematics in his work on philosophy and logic.

Catherine Steele graduated from the University of St Andrews. She went on to a doctorate in Chemistry and studied at the University of Illinois and at Harvard. She taught for some time at a Horticultural College in Kent before returning to the USA.

Sheila Power was an Irish mathematician and theoretical physicist.

Siobhán Vernon was the first Irish-born woman to get a PhD in pure mathematics in Ireland.