Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright was a British mathematician.
12 Facts About Mary Cartwright
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Mary Cartwright was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory.
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Mary Cartwright was born on 17 December 1900, in Aynho, Northamptonshire, where her father William Digby was vicar.
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Mary Cartwright was the first woman to attain the final degree lectures and to obtain a first.
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In 1930, Mary Cartwright was awarded a Yarrow Research Fellowship and went to Girton College, Cambridge to continue working on the topic of her doctoral thesis.
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Mary Cartwright's contributions extended to topics such as the Dirichlet series, Abel summation, directions of Borel spreads, analytic functions regular on the unit disk, the zeros of integral functions, maximum and minimum moduli, and functions of finite order in an angle.
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In 1936, Mary Cartwright became director of studies in mathematics at Girton College.
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Mary Cartwright set her version of the proof as a Tripos question, later published in an appendix to Sir Harold Jeffreys' book Scientific Inference.
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Mary Cartwright was appointed Mistress of Girton in 1948 and a Reader in the Theory of Functions in Cambridge in 1959 until 1968.
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Mary Cartwright died in Cambridge, on 3 April 1998 at the age of 97.
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In 1968, Mary Cartwright became the first woman to receive the De Morgan Medal, the highest award of the London Mathematical Society, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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Mary Cartwright died in Midfield Lodge Nursing Home in Cambridge in 1998.