Mary de Lellis Gough

Sister Mary de Lellis Gough (15 February 1892 – 7 April 1983) was an Irish–American mathematician.

Life

She was born in Kilmore, County Wexford, Ireland. Her parents were Ellen Dunne and Walter Gough.[1]

Career

She graduated from the Catholic University of America in 1920, earned a master's degree in 1923, and completed her PhD from the same university in 1931. Her PhD dissertation was entitled On the condition for the existence of triangles in and circumscribed to certain types of the rational quartic curve and having a common side and supervised by Aubrey Edward Landry.[1][2]

She taught mathematics at Incarnate Word College from 1920 to 1943.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (29 January 2017). "Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's". American Mathematical Soc. pp. 182–183 – via Google Books. Biography on p.290-210 of the Supplementary Material at AMS
  2. ↑ Mary de Lellis Gough at the Mathematics Genealogy Project


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