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Laura Guggenbühl

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278: 253: 22:(November 18, 1901 – March 8, 1985) was an American mathematician, one of the earliest women in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, known for her work in 258: 82: 268: 81:
Although not active in research mathematics after her doctorate, Guggenbühl represented Hunter College at many offerings of the
273: 66:. She became a regular-rank faculty member at Hunter College in 1932 and retired from there as an associate professor in 1972. 263: 225: 209: 200: 192: 98: 59: 135: 90: 27: 248: 243: 149: 139: 121: 42:, to a family of Swiss immigrants; her father, a butcher and baker, died by 1920. She graduated from 51: 47: 94: 55: 23: 159: 125: 54:. She became an instructor at Hunter College while earning a master's degree and Ph.D. from 85:. She also published several works on the history of mathematics, including biographies of 202:
Supplementary Material For Pioneering Women In American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's
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in 1922 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, after also taking some classes at
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1965: "Mathematics in Ancient Egypt: A checklist (1930 to 1965)",
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1964: "The New York Fragments of the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus",
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in 1924 and 1926 respectively. Her dissertation, supervised by
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She died on a round-the-world cruise, shortly after leaving
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An Integral Equation with an Associated Integral Condition
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An Integral Equation with an Associated Integral Condition
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1953: "Henry Brocard and the Geometry of the Triangle",
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triangle geometry
history of mathematics
New York City
Hunter College
Columbia University
New York University
Bryn Mawr College
Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler
Hong Kong
International Congress of Mathematicians
Henri Brocard
Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach
triangle geometry
Rhind mathematical papyrus
An Integral Equation with an Associated Integral Condition
Google Books
Mathematical Gazette
doi
10.2307/3610034
The Mathematics Teacher
JSTOR
JSTOR
Isis
doi
10.1086/351182




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