Christine Hamill

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Christine Mary Hamill (24 July 1923 – 24 March 1956) was an English mathematician who specialised in group theory and finite geometry.

Education

Hamill was one of the four children of English physiologist

Perse School for Girls.[1] In 1942, she won a scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, becoming a wrangler in 1945.[2]

She won a Newnham research fellowship in 1948,[3] and received her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1951. Her dissertation, The Finite Primitive Collineation Groups which contain Homologies of Period Two, concerned the group-theoretic properties of collineations, geometric transformations preserving straight lines;[4] she also published this material in three journal papers. J. A. Todd, who supervised her research work, observed that "the detailed results contained in her papers" were "of permanent value".[3]

Career

After completing her doctorate, Hamill was appointed to a lectureship in the

University College, Ibadan, Nigeria. She died of polio there in 1956, four months before she was to have married.[1][5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Miss C. M. Hamill". Obituary. The Times. March 1956. Retrieved 15 May 2008.
  2. ^ "Christine Mary Hamill". jonhays. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2008.
  3. ^ a b O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Christine Hamill", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
  4. ^ Christine Hamill at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. doi:10.1017/S0950184300000306
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