| 词条 | Helen Abbot Merrill |
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BiographyBorn March 30, 1864 to a New Jersey insurance claims adjuster and a housewife, and raised in Massachusetts, her family tree included colonial settlers. Young Helen's formal education started at a high school in Massachusetts, and after graduating she went to Wellesley College, where she intended to major in Greek and Latin. Unusually, the mathematics faculty at the college consisted mostly of women, including Ellen Hayes, and before completing her first years, Helen Merrill had decided to major in mathematics instead of languages. In 1893 she began teaching at Wellesley while also studying and guest lecturing abroad. In 1903 she earned a PhD in mathematics at Yale under the direction of James Pierpont. In 1920 she was appointed vice-president of the Mathematical Association of America. Upon her retirement from Wellesley, she was given the title Professor Emerita. At Wellesley, Merrill wrote two textbooks with Clara Eliza Smith, Selected Topics in Higher Algebra (Norwood, 1914) and A First Course in Higher Algebra (Macmillan, 1917).[2][3] She also wrote as a popularizer a book titled Mathematical Excursions in 1933.[4] Bibliography
References1. ^Helen Abbot Merrill - Agnes Scott College {{PlanetMath attribution|id=9692|title=Helen Merrill}}2. ^{{citation|url=https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/smith.htm|title=Clara Eliza Smith|work=Biographies of Women Mathematicians|first=Larry|last=Riddle|publisher=Agnes Scott College|date=February 25, 2016|accessdate=2018-05-08}} 3. ^Reviews of A First Course in Higher Algebra*{{citation|title=none|journal=The Journal of Education|volume=87|issue=2|date=January 1918|page=49|jstor=42826577}}*{{citation|title=none|first=Mary E.|last=Wells|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=25|issue=2|date=February 1918|pages=72–74|doi=10.2307/2971993}}*{{citation|title=none|first=Philip E. B.|last=Jourdain|journal=Science Progress|volume=12|issue=48|date=April 1918|page=684|jstor=43426456}} 4. ^Reviews of Mathematical Excursions*{{citation|title=none|journal=The Mathematics Teacher|volume=26|issue=5|date=May 1933|page=315|jstor=27951594}}*{{citation|title=none|first=Mary E.|last=Wells|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=40|issue=10|date=December 1933|pages=602–603|doi=10.2307/2301690}}*{{citation|title=none|first=David Eugene|last=Smith|journal=The Mathematics Teacher|volume=26|issue=8|date=December 1933|pages=499–501|jstor=27951644}}*{{citation|title=none|author=P. W. L. C.|journal=Junior-Senior High School Clearing House|volume=8|issue=5|department=The Marginal Fifty per Cent|date=January 1934|page=319|jstor=30174218}}*{{citation|title=none|first=Alex|last=Inglis|journal=The Mathematical Gazette|volume=19|issue=232|date=February 1935|page=62|doi=10.2307/3606651}}*{{citation|title=none|first=Samuel L.|last=Greitzer|journal=The Mathematics Teacher|volume=51|issue=6|date=October 1958|page=481|jstor=27955732}} External links
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