词条 | Helen F. Cullen |
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Helen Frances Cullen (January 4, 1919 – August 25, 2007){{r|ams}} was an American mathematician specializing in topology. She worked for many years as a professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst{{r|amherst}} and was the first female faculty member in the mathematics department at Amherst.{{r|latin}} She was known as the author of the book Introduction to General Topology (Heath, 1968),{{r|igt}} as well as for her outspoken antisemitism.{{r|ucu}} Education and careerCullen was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and studied at the Boston Latin School and Radcliffe College.{{r|amherst}} She earned a master's degree at the University of Michigan in 1944,{{r|regents}} and completed her Ph.D. at Michigan in 1950. Her dissertation, A Set of Parabolic Regular Curve Families Filling the Plane and Certain Related Reimann Surfaces, was supervised by Wilfred Kaplan.{{r|mgp}} She was a faculty member in the department of mathematics at Amherst from 1949 until her retirement as a professor emerita in 1992.{{r|amherst}} RecognitionIn 1998 the Bostin Latin School listed her as one of their outstanding alumnae.{{r|latin}} References1. ^{{citation|title=Deaths of AMS Members|page=618|journal=Notices of the AMS|volume=55|issue=5|date=May 2008|url=http://www.ams.org/notices/200805/tx080500617p.pdf}} [1][2][3][4][5][6]2. ^{{citation|url=http://blagls.org/main/alumnae_i/outstanding/|title=Outstanding alumnae/i|publisher=Girls' Latin School – Boston Latin Academy Association, Inc.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160117202424/http://blagls.org/main/alumnae_i/outstanding/|archive-date=2016-01-17}} 3. ^{{citation|last=Copeland|first=A. H. Jr.|journal=Mathematical Reviews|title=Introduction to general topology|mr=0221455}} 4. ^{{mathgenealogy|id=5153}} 5. ^{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1WLiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA666|page=666|title=Proceedings of the Board of Regents|publisher=University of Michigan|date=August 1944|contribution=Master of Arts}} 6. ^{{citation|title=The UnCivil University: Intolerance on College Campuses|first1=Gary A.|last1=Tobin|first2=Aryeh Kaufmann|last2=Weinberg|first3=Jenna|last3=Ferer|publisher=Lexington Books|year=2009|isbn=9780739132685|page=160|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tc1Bb2lVqqEC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160}} }}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Cullen, Helen Frances}} 9 : 1919 births|2007 deaths|20th-century American mathematicians|American women mathematicians|Topologists|Radcliffe College alumni|University of Michigan alumni|University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty|20th-century women mathematicians |
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