Elizabeth Stephansen
Mathematician
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- PhD Mathematics Princeton University
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- Bachelors Mathematics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Stephansen was a Norwegian mathematician and educator. She was one of the first Norwegian women to be awarded a doctorate degree. Biography Stephansen was born in Bergen, Norway. She was the eldest daughter of Anton Stephan Stephansen and Gerche Reimers Jahn . Her father was a merchant and owner of a textile shop. He later established the textile factory, Espelandfos Spinderi & Tricotagefabrik, in Arna. She was educated at the Bergen Cathedral School graduating in 1891. She was fluent in the German language and traveled to Switzerland to continue her education. She attended Eidgenössische Polytechnikum in Zurich and graduated in 1896. Her thesis Ueber partielle Differentialgleichungen vierter Ordnung die ein intermediäres Integral besitzen was published in 1902. She obtained her doctorate in absentia from the University of Zurich in the fall of 1902.
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