Annie Dale Biddle Andrews

Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (December 13, 1885 - April 14, 1940), born in Hanford, California to Samuel E. Biddle and A. A. Biddle, was the first woman to earn a Ph. D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.[1]

In 1911, she wrote her thesis, Constructive theory of the unicursal plane quartic by synthetic methods, under her maiden name, Annie Dale Biddle;[1] it was published by the university in 1912.[2] Her advisors were Derrick Norman Lehmer and Mellen Haskell .[3] She was a math instructor at the University of Washington from 1911 to 1912, after which she married Wilhelm Samuel Andrews.[1] She worked as a math instructor at the University of California between 1915 and 1932 and published a paper in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society around 1933.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Riddle, Larry (May 22, 2007). "Annie Dale Biddle Andrews". Agnes Scott College. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/andrews.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-02. 
  2. ^ Riddle, Larry (May 4, 2006). "Annie Biddle Abstract". Agnes Scott College. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/abstracts/andrews_abstract.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-02. 
  3. ^ "Annie Biddle". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. North Dakota State University. http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=32109. Retrieved 2007-11-02.