Barbara Gertrude Yates
Irish mathematician
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Barbara Gertrude Yates's Degrees
- Bachelors Mathematics National University of Ireland
- Masters Applied Mathematics Trinity College Dublin
- PhD Mathematics National University of Ireland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barbara Gertrude Yates was an Irish mathematician who seems to have been the first woman born and brought up in Ireland to gain a PhD in pure mathematics. Life and career She was born in January 1919 in Dublin, to a family with a tradition of excelling in mathematics at Trinity College Dublin. Her Offaly-born father James Yates had been a Trinity Scholar in Mathematics prior to his graduation in 1891, and was a school inspector in various parts of Ireland until 1922, when the whole family moved to Belfast following the partition of Ireland. Her older brothers Henry George Yates and James Garrett Yates had also been Trinity Scholars in Mathematics, in 1927 and 1936 respectively. She herself received that distinction in 1940, graduating BA in mathematics in 1941.
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