Mildred Sanderson
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Mildred Leonora Sanderson (May 12, 1889 – October 10, 1914) was an American mathematician, best known for her mathematical theorem concerning modular invariants.[1][2]
Life
Sanderson was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1889 and was the valedictorian of her class at the Waltham High School.[1] She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1910, winning Senior Honors in Mathematics.[1] She obtained her Ph.D degree from the University of Chicago in 1913,[3] publishing the thesis Template:Harv in which she set forth her mathematical theorem. She was Leonard Eugene Dickson's first female doctoral student.[1][3]
After completing her Ph.D., Sanderson briefly taught at the University of Wisconsin before her untimely death in 1914 due to tuberculosis.[1][4]
Sanderson's theorem
Sanderson's theorem Template:Harv states: "To any modular invariant of a system of forms under any group of linear transformations with coefficients in the field , there corresponds a formal invariant under such that for all sets of values in the field of the coefficients of the system of forms." Often this theorem was cited as “Miss Sanderson’s Theorem”.[1]
Recognition
She is mentioned in the 2008 book Pioneering women in American mathematics: the pre-1940 PhD's, by Judy Green and Jeanne LaDuke.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Template:Cite web
- ↑ Template:Harvtxt
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Template:Mathgenealogy
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Template:Cite book Biography on p.542-543 of the Supplementary Material at AMS
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- University of Chicago alumni
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- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- 20th-century American women scientists
- 20th-century American women mathematicians
- Waltham High School alumni
- Tuberculosis deaths in Massachusetts