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Phyllis Fox

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Resume and brief autobiography for Phyllis Fox, for Wellesley College Class of 1944 Record Book, Jan 1974, SIAM history website
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project. She earned a second baccalaureate, a B.S. in electrical engineering, from the
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The History of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing - Oral Histories
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On the use of coordinate perturbations in the solution of physical problems
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research group at MIT, where she became part of the team that wrote the
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Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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interpreter, and the principal author of the first LISP manual.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
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From 1954 to 1958, Fox worked on the numerical solution of
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American mathematician and computer scientist (1923–2017)
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in 1948. She then moved on to graduate studies at the
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in 1949. Fox died on May 23, 2017, at the age of 94.
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Index

Denver, Colorado
Wellesley College
University of Colorado
MIT
DYNAMO (programming language)
LISP
General Electric
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
MIT
Newark College of Engineering
Bell Labs
Thesis
On the use of coordinate perturbations in the solution of physical problems
Doctoral advisor
Chia-Chiao Lin
Colorado
Wellesley College
General Electric
differential analyser
University of Colorado
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chia-Chiao Lin
Whirlwind
Jay Forrester
partial differential equations
Univac
United States Atomic Energy Commission
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
Jay Forrester

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