Sheila Scott Macintyre

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Sheila Scott Macintyre (April 23, 1910 - March 21, 1960) was a Scottish mathematician whose first paper, on the asymptotic periods of integral functions, was published in 1935. She worked as an assistant lecturer at the University of Aberdeen; and, by 1958, was a visiting professor of the University of Cincinnati. In 1958, she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Macintyre is, perhaps, best known for creating a multilingual scientific dictionary: written in English, German, and Russian; at the time of her death, she was working on Japanese.

[edit] Education

Macintyre attended the Edinburgh Ladies College (1926-28) and graduated, in 1932, from the University of Edinburgh. She also studied at Girton College. Macintyre received her PhD from Aberdeen in 1947; her thesis was entitled Some problems in interpolatory function theory.

[edit] Family

Macintyre married Archibald James Macintyre (1940) and they had two children: Alister William Macintyre and Susan Cantey.

[edit] External links

• Sheila Scott Macintyre at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Sheila Scott Macintyre". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.