Gloria Olive
| Gloria Olive | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 8, 1923 New York City |
| Died |
April 17, 2006 (aged 82) Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Residence | New Zealand |
| Fields | Mathematics. Combinatorics |
| Institutions | University of Otago |
Gloria Olive (1923–2006) was a New Zealand academic mathematician.
Academic career
Gloria Olive began her mathematics career in the United States.[1] She graduated with a BA from Brooklyn College in 1944 followed by an MA from the University of Wisconsin in 1946 and a PhD from the University of Oregon in 1950, with the dissertation Generalised Powers.[2] [3] She was one of a small group of approximately 7 women who established the precursor group to the inaugural American Women in Mathematics Society.[4] In 1972 she took up a teaching position at the University of Otago.[5] She became Senior Lecturer in Mathematics. She retired in December 1988 and died in Dunedin in 2006.[6]
Selected works
Mathematics for Liberal Arts Students[7]
Various peer-reviewed articles on combinatorics and analysis in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications[8]
References
- ↑ S Mac Lane and John Rayner, Gloria Olive, New Zealand Math. Soc. Newslett. No. 45 (1989), 22-23
- ↑ https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/olive.htm. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Gloria Olive at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Complexities : women in mathematics. Case, Bettye Anne., Leggett, Anne M. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2005. p. 82. ISBN 1400880165. OCLC 949753960.
- ↑ Diane., Farquhar, (1989). Women sum it up : biographical sketches of women mathematicians. Mary-Rose, Lynn. Christchurch, N.Z.: Hazard Press. ISBN 0908790066. OCLC 23448330.
- ↑ "St Andrews mathematicians biographies project".
- ↑ "Google Books".
- ↑ "Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Open Source)".