Mina Rees
American mathematician
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Mina Rees's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mina Spiegel Rees was an American mathematician. She was the first female President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and head of the mathematics department of the Office of Naval Research of the United States. Rees was a pioneer in the history of computing and helped establish funding streams and institutional infrastructure for research. Rees was also the founding president and president emerita of the Graduate School and University Center at CUNY. She received the Public Welfare Medal, the highest honor of the National Academy of Sciences; the King's Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom and at least 18 honorary doctorates.
Mina Rees's Published Works
Published Works
- The Mathematical Sciences and World War II (1980) (40)
- The Computing Program of the Office of Naval Research, 1946-1953 (1982) (24)
- The Federal Computing Machine Program (1985) (8)
- The Federal Computing Machine Program. (1950) (7)
- The mathematics program of the Office of Naval Research (1948) (5)
- Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, vol. III: Astronomy and Physics. (1957) (4)
- Division Algebras Associated with an Equation Whose Group has Four Generators (1932) (3)
- The Scientist in Society: Inspiration and Obligation (1975) (2)
- Come, now, and let us reason together. (1972) (1)
- On the Use of Herbicides in Vietnam (1968) (1)
- Mathematicians in the Market Place (1958) (1)
- A humane approach to population problems. (1971) (1)
- Support of Higher Education by the Federal Government (1961) (1)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics Division - Inaugural Meeting (1972) (1)
- Supplementary statements by some members of the board of directors. (1968) (1)
- The Nature of Mathematics: Both constructive intuition and the study of abstract structures characterize the growth of mathematics. (1962) (1)
- Mathematical Education Notes (1961) (1)
- Report to the Association-1972 (1973) (0)
- Advanced Mathematics for Engineers . H. W. Reddick and F. H. Miller. Wiley, New York-London, ed. 3, 1955. xiv + 548 pp. Illus. $6.50. (1955) (0)
- Mathematics and Federal Support. (1954) (0)
- Time and Talent. (1962) (0)
- Numerical Methods . Andrew D. Booth. Academic Press, New York; Butterworths, London, 1955. vii + 195 pp. Illus. $6. (1955) (0)
- Official Notices: New ACM appointments (1962) (0)
- Mathematics at NBS…a policy committee report (1956) (0)
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