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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
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
1966: American mathematician Mary L. Boas published Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, which was still widely used in college classrooms as of 1999. [48] [49] [50] 1968: Mary Cartwright of Britain became the first woman to be given the De Morgan Medal, the London Mathematical Society’s premier award. [51] [45]
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.
In 1951, Mary Cartwright became the first female president of the Mathematical Association. [ 3 ] In the 1960s, when comprehensive education was being introduced, the Association was in favour of the 11-plus system.
She studied at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1932 with an MA in mathematics and natural philosophy. Afterwards, she continued her studies at Girton College, Cambridge, taking the Mathematical Tripos. [2] In her final year at the university she worked on a research project under the supervision of Mary Cartwright.