Florence Eliza Allen

Florence Eliza Allen (October 4, 1876 – December 31, 1960) was an American mathematician and women's suffrage activist.[1][2] In 1907 she became the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the fourth Ph.D. overall from that department.

Biography

Allen was born in Horicon, Wisconsin. She had an older brother and her father was a lawyer.

Florence Allen received her bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin in 1900. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa as an undergrad, and Delta Delta Delta as a Ph.D.[1][2] She held leadership positions in a fine arts and literary society for women. She stayed at the University of Wisconsin as a resident and achieved her Master's degree in 1901.[3]

Florence Allen continued to work at the University of Wisconsin as an assistant and became an instructor in 1902. She attained her doctorate in 1907 in geometry,[4] after which she remained at UW–Madison; she became an assistant professor in 1945, and retired in 1947.[3] She died at the age of 84 in 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Biographies of Women Mathematicians". Agnes Scott College. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 Leonard, John William (1914). Woman's Who's Who of America. New York: American Commonwealth Company. p. 43. ISBN 0-8103-4018-6.
  3. 1 2 3 Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2009). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. American Mathematical Soc. p. 123. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  4. ↑ Florence Eliza Allen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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