Gloria Conyers Hewitt
Gloria Conyers Hewitt (born 1935) is an African-American mathematician. She was the third African-American woman to receive a PhD in Mathematics.[1]
Early life and education
Gloria Conyers was born on October 26, 1935 in Sumter, South Carolina.[2] She entered Fisk University in 1952 and graduated in 1956 with a degree in secondary mathematics education. She received her PhD in mathematics in 1962 from the University of Washington (completing her masters in 1960).[1]
Career
She was Professor of mathematics and department chair at the University of Montana (beginning 1995).[1]
She was known for many mathematics reason but most of all for being one of the first three black women to get a mathematics award.
Awards
She was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation postdoctoral Science Faculty Fellowship. She was elected to the board of governors of the Mathematical Association of America.[1]
Selected publications
- Gloria Conyers Hewitt and Francis T. Hannick, "Characterizations of generalized Noetherian rings," Acta Math. Hungar. 53 (1989), 61–73. 16A90 (16A33, 16A52)
- Gloria Conyers Hewitt, "Limits in certain classes of abstract algebras," Pacific J. Math. 22 (1967), 109–115. 08.10
- Gloria Conyers Hewitt, "The existence of free unions in classes of abstract algebras," Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 14 (1963), 417–422. 08.30
References
- 1 2 3 4 Charlene Morrow and Teri Peri (eds), Notable Women in Mathematics, Greenwood Press, 1998, pp. 76–79.
- ↑ Kenschaft, Patricia Clark (1994). "Hewitt, Gloria Conyers (1935–)". Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 557–558. ISBN 0-253-32774-1.