Mary de Lellis Gough

Sister Mary de Lellis Gough (15 February 1892 – 7 April 1983) was an American mathematician.

Life

She was born in Kilmore, Ireland. Her parents were Ellen Dunne and Walter Gough.[1]

Career

She completed her PhD at Catholic University in 1931.[1]

Her PhD dissertation was entitled On the condition for the existence of triangles in and circumscribed to certain types of the rational quartic curve and having a common side.[2][3]

She later became a professor of mathematics.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (29 January 2017). "Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's". American Mathematical Soc. – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ "Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1931". Copyright Office, Library of Congress. 1 January 1932 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [A] Group 1. Books. New Series". 1 January 1931 – via Google Books.


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