Louise Duffield Cummings
Louise Duffield Cummings | |
|---|---|
 Prof. Louise Cummings (standing right) at the ICM 1932 | |
| Born | November 21, 1870 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | May 9, 1947 (aged 76) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto Bryn Mawr College |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Vassar College |
| Thesis | On a Method of Comparison for Triple-Systems (1914) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charlotte Scott[1] |
Louise Duffield Cummings (21 November 1870 – 9 May 1947) was a Canadian-born American mathematician.[2] She was born in Hamilton, Ontario.[3]
Education and career
As a young child, Louise Duffield Cummings studied at the public schools and Collegiate Institute at Hamilton.[3]
Cummings received her B.A. in 1895 from the University of Toronto. She studied mathematics at the graduate level in 1895–1896 under the Professor DeLury at University of Toronto, in 1896–1897 at the University of Pennsylvania where she held a fellowship, in 1897–1898 at the University of Chicago, and in 1898–1900 at Bryn Mawr College. During 1900–1901 she taught at the Ontario Normal College and, while completing her A.M. at the University of Toronto, she taught at St. Margaret's College during 1901–1902. she worked with Henry White and Charlotte Scott was her supervisor. She returned to Bryn Mawr College in 1905 and 1912–1913.[4]
Cummings joined the faculty of Vassar in 1902 as an instructor; she worked with Henry White and Charlotte Scott was her supervisor.
Selected publications
- Cummings, L. D. (1913). "A note on the groups for triple-systems". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 19 (7): 355–356. MR 1559362.
- Cummings, Louise D. (1914). "On a method of comparison for triple systems". Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 15 (3): 311–327. MR 1500982. (Ph.D. dissertation)
- with MR 1559701.
- Cummings, Louise D. (1918). "An undervalued Kirkman paper". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 24 (7): 336–339. MR 1560081.
- Cummings, Louise D. (1919). "The trains for the 36 groupless triad systems on 15 elements". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (7): 321–324. MR 1560192.
- Cummings, Louise D. (1925). "A new type of double sextette closed under a binary (3,3) correspondence". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 31 (5): 266–274. MR 1561036.
- Cummings, Louise D. (1932). "Hexagonal systems of seven lines in a plane". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (2): 105–110. MR 1562336.
- Cummings, Louise D. (1932). "Heptagonal systems of eight lines in a plane". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (10): 700–702. MR 1562491.
- Cummings, Louise D. (1933). "On a method of comparison for straight-line nets". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (6): 411–416. MR 1562638.
References
- ^ Louise Duffield Cummings at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5. Biography on p.156-159 of the Supplementary Material at AMS
- ^ a b c "Louise Duffield Cummings". www.agnesscott.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-29.
- ^ a b Riddle, Larry. "Biographies of Women in Mathematics: Louise Duffield Cummings". Anges Scott College. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
- ^ Vassar Miscellany News 16 February 1927 — Vassar Newspaper Archive
External links
- Works by or about Louise Duffield Cummings at Internet Archive
Media related to Louise Duffield Cummings (mathematician) at Wikimedia Commons
