Mary Cartwright
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MARY CARTWRIGHT
BY: ALLESSA CALAMITA
EARLY LIFE
- Born on Dec. 17th, 1900
- Born in England
- Mother, Lucy Cartwright
- Father, William Cartwright
- 2nd out of four children
- Two brothers died at war
EARLY LIFE
- Lived with her uncle for better schooling
- Attended Learnington High School
- Best subject in school was histroy
- Thought it was to hard to remember, started learning math
- She went to St. Hugh's College at Oxford University
SCHOOLING
- Wasn't room for her in classes
- Attempted to copy notes from people in the class
- Ended up only getting her second degree in math in 1921
- Took night classes with Godfrey H. Hardy
- 1923 she would graduate with her first degree in math
- Only the second year women were let to receive their first degree
AFTER SCHOOLING
- Started working at Alice Ottley School in Worcrester
- Then worked at Wycombie Abbey School
- Short lived because she felt like the material was restricted
- Returned to Oxford for more math research
- Began her doctoral work with help of Hardy and E.C. Titchmarsh
AFTER SCHOOLING
- Worked on her math theories
- Published her work on the generalized Abel summuability with applications to Fourier series
- Published more of her theories, From non-Linear oscillations to topological dynamics
- Received a Yarrow Research Fellowship at Girton College
- Next five years worked on cluster sets
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- 1939, British Department of Scientific and Industrial Research's Radio Research Board contacted Mary and reached out for help
- It was a problem with their radar
TAKING A BREAK
- Mary was granted head of Griton University in 1949
- She would take time to travel and give lectures
- Later would serve as president of the British Mathematical Association
- This led to another publication called Integral Fractions
RETIREMENT
- Retired from Girton in 1968
- Was still traveling and giving lectures
- In 1969, she was appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II
- Female version of a knight
- Would change her name to Dame Mary Cartwright
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- Continued to write and published papers about roundedness theorems for second-order differential equations
- She would write "Moments in a Girls Life" about equal education for women
- Would la low and help friends edit and revise their work of art and music
DEATH
- Would die at age 97
- Died on April 3rd, 1998
- Died in a nursing home in the United Kingdom
WHAT SHE LEFT US WITH
- cluster sets, limits and asymptotic values, level curves of integral and meromorphic functions, functions in the unit disk, entire functions, ordinary differential equations, and topology.
