Claribel Kendall

Claribel Kendall
Born (1889-01-23)January 23, 1889
Denver, Colorado
Died April 17, 1965(1965-04-17) (aged 76)
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Colorado, University of Chicago
Occupation Mathematician
Awards Robert L. Stearns Award

Claribel Kendall (January 23, 1889 – April 17, 1965) was an American mathematician.

Born in Denver, Colorado, Kendall earned a BA and B.Ed. in 1912 and an MA in 1914 from the University of Colorado.[1] Her master's thesis was called "Preassociative syzygies in linear algebra". She taught at the university from 1913 until her retirement in 1957.

She earned her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1922, writing her doctoral thesis, "Congruences determined by a given surface", under Professor Ernest Julius Wilczynski.[2] The work, about a surface defined by two differential equations, was published in the American Journal of Mathematics the following year.[3]

Kendall was a member of the Christian Science Church. She was secretary of the UC chapter of Phi Beta Kappa for over 30 years and the chapter gives out awards in her name.

Awards

Kendall received the Robert L. Stearns Award for "extraordinary achievement or service" from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1957.[4]

References

  • Louise S. Grinstein (Editor), Paul J. Campbell (Editor) (1987). Women of Mathematics: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook. Greenwood Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-313-24849-8. pp. 92–94.
  1. ↑ "Claribel Kendall". www.agnesscott.edu. Agnes Scott College.
  2. ↑ "Claribel Kendall - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Department of Mathematics, North Dakota State University.
  3. ↑ "Claribel Kendall". www.agnesscott.edu. Agnes Scott College.
  4. ↑ "Robert L. Stearns Award". Homecoming 2018: Robert L. Stearns Award. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
  • Claribel Kendall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  • "Biographies of Women Mathematicians".
  • Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2008). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics — The Pre-1940 PhD's. History of Mathematics. 34 (1st ed.). American Mathematical Society, The London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5. Biography on p. 324-326 of the Supplementary Material at AMS


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