Dorothy Lewis Bernstein

Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (April 11, 1914 – February 5, 1988) was an American mathematician known for her work in applied mathematics, statistics, computer programming, and her research on the Laplace transform.

Dorothy Bernstein was born in Chicago, the daughter of Russian immigrants to the US. She was a member of the American Mathematical Society and the first woman elected president of the Mathematical Association of America. Due in great part to Bernstein's ability to get grants from the National Science Foundation, Goucher College (where she taught for decades) was the first women's university to use computers in mathematics instruction in the 1960s.

Bibliography

Fasanelli, F. D. (1987), "Dorothy Lewis Bernstein", in Grinstein, Louise S.; Campbell, Paul J., Women of Mathematics: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook, New York: Greenwood Press, pp. 17–20, ISBN 978-0313248498 .

External links

"Dorothy Lewis Bernstein", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College

This article incorporates material from Dorothy Bernstein on PlanetMath, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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