Gloria Olive

Gloria Olive
Born (1923-06-08)June 8, 1923
New York City
Died April 17, 2006(2006-04-17) (aged 82)
Dunedin, New Zealand
Residence New Zealand
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics. Combinatorics
Institutions University of Otago

Gloria Olive (1923–2006) was a New Zealand academic mathematician.

Academic career

Gloria Olive began her mathematics career in the United States.[1] She graduated with a BA from Brooklyn College in 1944 followed by an MA from the University of Wisconsin in 1946 and a PhD from the University of Oregon in 1950, with the dissertation Generalised Powers.[2][3] She was one of a small group of approximately 7 women who established the precursor group to the inaugural American Women in Mathematics Society.[4] In 1972 she took up a teaching position at the University of Otago.[5] She became Senior Lecturer in Mathematics. She retired in December 1988 and died in Dunedin in 2006.[6]

Selected works

Mathematics for Liberal Arts Students[7]

Various peer-reviewed articles on combinatorics and analysis in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications[8]

References

  1. ↑ S Mac Lane and John Rayner, Gloria Olive, New Zealand Math. Soc. Newslett. No. 45 (1989), 22-23
  2. ↑ https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/olive.htm. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Gloria Olive at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Case, Bettye Anne; Leggett, Anne M., eds. (2005). Complexities : women in mathematics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. p. 82. ISBN 1400880165. OCLC 949753960.
  5. ↑ Diane., Farquhar, (1989). Women sum it up : biographical sketches of women mathematicians. Mary-Rose, Lynn. Christchurch, N.Z.: Hazard Press. ISBN 0908790066. OCLC 23448330.
  6. ↑ "St Andrews mathematicians biographies project".
  7. ↑ "Google Books".
  8. ↑ "Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Open Source)".


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