Laura Guggenbühl
American mathematician
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Laura Guggenbühl's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics Princeton University
- Masters Mathematics Stanford University
Why Is Laura Guggenbühl Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Laura Guggenbühl was an American mathematician, one of the earliest women in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, known for her work in triangle geometry and the history of mathematics. Life Guggenbühl was born in New York City, to a family of Swiss immigrants; her father, a butcher and baker, died by 1920. She graduated from Hunter College in 1922 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics, after also taking some classes at Columbia University and New York University. She became an instructor at Hunter College while earning a master's degree and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College in 1924 and 1926 respectively. Her dissertation, supervised by Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, was An Integral Equation with an Associated Integral Condition. She became a regular-rank faculty member at Hunter College in 1932 and retired from there as an associate professor in 1972.
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