Etta Zuber (married to Falconer ; English Etta Zuber Falconer ; 1933 , Tupelo , Lee County, Mississippi USA - 2002 ) is an American teacher, mathematician, one of the first two African-American women who was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics in USA.
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 Etta Zuber Falconer | |
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| Place of Birth | Tupelo |
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| Academic degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mathematics [4] |
| Awards and prizes | [d] ( 1995 ) |
Biography
The daughter of a doctor. In 1949 she graduated from George Washington High School. At the age of 15, she entered Fisk University in Nashville , Tennessee , where she majored in mathematics and chemistry, and graduated with honors in 1953. She continued her studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison , where she received a master's degree in mathematical sciences (1954).
She began her teaching career in 1954 at Okolona Junior College .
After moving the family in 1965 to Atlanta , she entered graduate school at Emory University . In Emory, in 1969, she became a Ph.D. in mathematics, one of the first two African-American women to be awarded this degree in the United States (thesis on general algebra ).
As head of the mathematics department at Spelman College in Atlanta, she took part in the creation of the computer science department, and returned to graduate school at the University of Atlanta, receiving a master's degree in computer science (1982).
Dedicated to teaching 37 years of her life. She worked as professor of mathematics and head of the department of mathematics (1972), head of the department of natural sciences (1982) and professor of mathematics and associate vice-rector for science (1990) until May 2002, when she retired.
She died of pancreatic cancer in September 2002.
Honorary Member of the Association of Women Mathematicians (1995). In 2001, the American Association for the Advancement of Science awarded Dr. E. Zuber Falconer his prize for many years of achievement and a vital contribution to science.
Dr. E. Zuber Falconer, in one of her speeches, stated that her whole life was "devoted to ... increasing the number of highly qualified African Americans in the field of mathematics."
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Black Women Scientists in the United States - Indiana University Press , 1999. - S. 96–98. - ISBN 978-0-253-33603-3
- ↑ 1 2 Archive for the history of mathematics MacTyutor
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ↑ Quasigroup Invariant Under Isotopy , 1969