Marie Johanna Weiss
American mathematician
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- PhD Mathematics Princeton University
- Masters Mathematics Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Marie Johanna Weiss was an American mathematician, university professor and textbook author. In 1927, she became the first woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from Stanford University. Life and work Weiss was born in Eugene, California, the youngest of three surviving children of Alice Hedwig and Frederick Weiss, both German emigrants. She attended public high schools in Stockton, California, before enrolling at Stanford University in 1921. In the summer of 1924, after her junior year, she was an assistant instructor in a mathematics class there. She was accepted into the honorary society Phi Beta Kappa and graduated in 1925 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics with distinction. The following year she studied at Radcliffe College , where she received her master's degree in 1926. She returned to Stanford on a university scholarship and taught functional theory. There, she completed her doctorate with William Albert Manning; her dissertation was titled: Primitive Groups Which Contain Substitutions of Prime Order p and of Degree 6p or 7p. The dissertation is dated August 1927, and she received her PhD in June 1928.
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