Louise Hay (mathematician)
Louise Hay | |
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Lorraine, France | |
| Died | 28 October 1989 (aged 54) |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Louise Schmir Hay Louise Larson |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Years active | 1960–1989 |
| Spouses | John Hay
(m. 1955; div. 1968)Richard Larson (m. 1970) |
Louise Hay (June 14, 1935 – October 28, 1989) was a French-born American
Biography
Louise Schmir was born in
In 1955, at the end of her junior year, she married John Hay, and then completed her BA in mathematics in 1956. She began her master's studies at Cornell University, where her husband was studying and when he transferred to Oberlin College, she followed him there. Though she completed her work on mathematical logic at Oberlin, her master's degree was awarded by Cornell in 1959.[1] Her master's thesis was entitled "An Axiomatization of the Infinitely Many-Valued Predicate Calculus."[2] She taught for a year at Oberlin and then worked at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo, New York.[1]
When her husband relocated to Boston, she followed him there and worked at
Her work was influential with both Soviet and US mathematicians of the period.[3] She co-founded the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) in an effort to provide support to other working mothers.[1] In 1978, she won a Fulbright Scholarship, as did her husband, and they spent the year studying in the Philippines. In 1979, Hay was named the acting head of the University of Illinois' mathematics department, becoming the only woman to head a research university's mathematics department.[4] In 1980, she was appointed to the executive board of the AWM and remained in that post until 1987. She was also named as secretary of the Association for Symbolic Logic in 1982.
Death and legacy
In 1988, Hay had a relapse in her breast cancer but continued to work until her death on 28 October 1989 in Oak Park, Illinois.[4] In 1990 the AWM established the Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education to both honor Hay for her contributions to mathematical logic, her leadership and recognize a woman who had made contributions to mathematics and education.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Oakes 2007, p. 315.
- ^ Hay 1959.
- ^ a b Soare 1990, p. 3.
- ^ a b c Oakes 2007, p. 316.
- ^ "Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education". Fairfax, Virginia: Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
Bibliography
- Hay, Louise Schmir (1959). An axiomatization of the infinitely many-valued predicate calculus. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University.
- Oakes, Elizabeth H. (2007). Encyclopedia of World Scientists. New York, New York: Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-1882-6.
- Soare, Robert I. (January–February 1990). "In Memoriam: Louise Hay 1935–1989" (PDF). Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter. 20 (1). Wellesley, Massachusetts: Wellesley College.
Additional sources
- Hay, Louise. How I became a mathematician, Newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 1989 (pp. 8–10).
- Hughes, Rhonda. Fond Remembrances of Louise Hay, Newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 1990, (pp. 4–6).
External links
- Louise Hay on agnesscott.edu (Biographies of Women Mathematicians)
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Louise Schmir Hay", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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