Charlotte Scott
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Charlotte Angas Scott D.Sc.(Lond.) (June 8, 1858 – November 10, 1931, Cambridge, England) was a British mathematician.
She was the daughter of Rev. Caleb Scott, Principal of Lancashire Independent College at Whalley Range. Educated at Girton College, Cambridge from 1876 to 1880, she was then a Resident Lecturer in Mathematics there until 1884. In 1885 she was the first British woman to receive a doctoral degree.
Moving to the United States, she was Associate Professor of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania from 1885 to 1888 and Professor from 1885 to 1917. On retirement she settled in Cambridge.
She presented the silver challenge cup for Girton and Newnham Lawn Tennis Doubles in 1883.
[edit] Publications
- Scott, Charlotte A. (1894) Modern Analytical Geometry, Macmillan.
[edit] References
- Kenschaft, Patricia C. Charlotte Angas Scott, 1858-1931. The College Mathematics Journal. 18:2: March 1987. pp. 98-110.
- Girton College Register 1869-1946, University Press, Cambridge, 1948
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