Annie Dale Biddle Andrews

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Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (born in Hanford, California on December 13, 1885 to Samuel E. Biddle and A. A. Biddle) was the first woman to earn a Ph. D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.[1]

In 1911, she wrote her thesis, Constructive theory of the unicursal plane quartic by synthetic methods, under her maiden name, Annie Dale Biddle;[1] it was published by the university in 1912.[2]. Her advisors were Derrick Norman Lehmer and Mellen Haskell .[3] She was a math instructor at the University of Washington from 1911 to 1912, after which she married Wilhelm Samuel Andrews.[1] She worked as a math instructor at the University of California between 1915 and 1932 and published a paper in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society around 1933. [1]

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  1. ^ a b c d Riddle, Larry (May 22, 2007). Annie Dale Biddle Andrews. Agnes Scott University. Retrieved on 2007-11-02.
  2. ^ Riddle, Larry (May 4, 2006). Annie Biddle Abstract. Agnes Scott University. Retrieved on 2007-11-02.
  3. ^ Annie Biddle. The Mathematics Genealogy Project. North Dakota State University. Retrieved on 2007-11-02.