Emily Coddington Williams
American historian of mathematics
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Emily Coddington Williams's Degrees
- PhD History of Mathematics Stanford University
- Masters History Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Emily Coddington Williams was an American historian of mathematics, translator, novelist, playwright, and biographer. Early life and education Coddington was born on October 21, 1873, in New York City; her parents were of well-off colonial stock. Her father, a lawyer, died in 1876, and she came to live in Midtown Manhattan with her mother and grandmother. She passed the entrance examination for Harvard University in 1891, allowing her to study at the Harvard Annex, a precursor to Radcliffe College. Instead, she went to the University of London from 1894 to 1896, and earned a bachelor's degree there. In 1898, Columbia University awarded her a master's degree in mathematics, minoring in mechanics and Greek, based on a thesis she wrote at the end of her studies in London concerning the history of determinants.
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