Lida Barrett

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Lida K. Barrett
Houston, Texas
DiedJanuary 28, 2021(2021-01-28) (aged 93)
Knoxville, Tennessee
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
SpouseJohn Barrett
Awards
Scientific career
Thesis Regular Curves and Regular Points of Finite Order  (1954)
Doctoral advisorJ. R. Kline

Lida Baker Kittrell Barrett (May 21, 1927 – January 28, 2021[1]) was an American mathematics professor and administrator. She served on many committees and boards and contributed to mathematics, mathematics education, and increasing the participation of members of underrepresented groups in mathematics. She served as president of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in 1989 and 1990.

Early life and education

Lida Baker Kittrell was born on May 21, 1927, in

Houston, Texas.[2] She earned her baccalaureate, masters, and doctorate degrees in mathematics from Rice University (1946), the University of Texas at Austin (1949), and the University of Pennsylvania (1954), respectively.[3] Her 1954 doctoral dissertation, Regular Curves and Regular Points of Finite Order, was supervised by John Robert Kline.[4]

Career

She taught briefly at the

Texas State College for Women in Denton, now Texas Woman's University.[5]

Barrett served as a mathematics faculty member at the universities of Utah and Tennessee, and headed the mathematics department at the

United States Military Academy at West Point for three years.[3] She died in Knoxville, Tennessee, on January 28, 2021.[2]

Notable positions

From 1979 to 1982, Barrett chaired the

Madrid, Spain, in July 1996. She was a member of the advisory committee of the Harvard Calculus Consortium and of the Adolescence and Young Adult/Mathematics Standards committee for the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards.[3]

Recognition

In 2008 she received the MAA Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics.[6][7] She was a fellow of the American Mathematical Society[8] and part of the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). Her AWM fellow citation read "for her profound and long-lasting effect in diversifying the committees and leadership of the MAA, during and beyond her term as its second woman president; for her value to the mathematics community as a pioneer and defender of women and underrepresented groups".[9]

References

  1. ^ "Lida Kittrell Barrett". Knoxville News Sentinel. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d "Lida Baker Kittrell Barrett, 1989–1990 MAA President". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "Lida Barrett". Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Agnes Scott College. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  4. ^ Lida Barrett at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ISBN 978-0-262-63246-1
    . Retrieved July 9, 2020.
  6. ^ "Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  7. ^ "Lida Barrett Wins Gung and Hu Distinguished Service Award". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  8. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2014-06-07.
  9. ^ 2019 Class of AWM Fellows, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved November 23, 2020
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