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Mary Cartwright (far right) at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1932. Mary Cartwright was born on 17 December 1900, in Aynho, Northamptonshire, where her father William Digby was vicar. Through her grandmother Jane Holbech, she descended from poet John Donne and William Mompesson, Vicar of Eyam.
Mary Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician, one of the first to analyze a dynamical system with chaos; María Andrea Casamayor (1700–1780), only 18th-century Spanish scientist whose work is still extant; Bettye Anne Case, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
1949: American mathematician Gertrude Mary Cox became the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute. [36] Also, Maria Laura Lopes obtained her PhD in Mathematics, being the first woman to obtain the title in Brazil. 1951: Mary Cartwright of Britain became the first female president of the Mathematical Association. [37] [33]
Mary Cartwright was the first woman to be President of the LMS (in 1961–62). [1] ... The Society’s grants include research grants for mathematicians, ...
The De Morgan Medal is a prize for outstanding contribution to mathematics, awarded by the London Mathematical Society. The Society's most prestigious award, it is given in memory of Augustus De Morgan, who was the first President of the society. It is awarded every three years, usually to a mathematician living and working in the United ...
Appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, at site of University of Greenwich Mathematics Department. Dame Mary Cartwright, fellow and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge; J. W. S. Cassels, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1949–1984; Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics 1967-1986
John Edensor Littlewood FRS (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician. He worked on topics relating to analysis, number theory, and differential equations and had lengthy collaborations with G. H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Mary Cartwright.
Thomas Banchoff – Professor Emeritus of Mathematics; Mary Cartwright FRS – Visiting Professor (1968–69) Herbert Federer – Florence Pirce Grant University Professor (1945–85) [22] Mary Cartwright; William Feller – Associate Professor (1939–45); mathematician of probability theory, winner of the National Medal of Science