Joanne Elliott
Joanne Elliott (born December 5, 1925)[1] is an American mathematician specializing in potential theory,[2] who has been described as a "disciple" of her co-author, probability theorist William Feller.[3] She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Rutgers University.[2]
Elliott was born on December 5, 1925 in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from Brown University in 1947.[1] She completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1950, as part of a handful of "outstanding graduate students" working at Cornell in the post-World-War-II decade.[4] Her dissertation, On Some Singular Integral Equations of the Cauchy Type, was supervised by Harry Pollard.[5]
After a year at Swarthmore College, she worked at Mount Holyoke College as an assistant professor from 1952 until 1956, when she moved to Barnard College.[6] In 1958, she was the supervisor of Doris Stockton's doctorate at Brown University.[7] In 1961, as an associate professor at Barnard, she was funded by the National Science Foundation to visit the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey for postdoctoral research.[8] She also worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton in the early 1960s.[3]
She came to Rutgers University in 1964, at a time when Rutgers had a much higher number of female faculty than many mathematics departments then or later.[9] Among her graduate students at Rutgers was Edward R. Dougherty, later a distinguished professor of electrical engineering at Texas A&M University.[5] She chaired the Rutgers mathematics department from 1974 to 1977.[9] Elliott retired from Rutgers in 1991, in a year in which the university was cutting costs by offering early retirement to its employees.[9]
References[]
- ^ a b Murray, Margaret A. M. (July 23, 2017), "Joanne Elliott, Cornell 1950", Women Becoming Mathematicians: American women mathematics PhDs 1940-1959, retrieved 2019-09-07
- ^ a b Research Areas by Faculty, Rutgers Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-09-07
- ^ a b Halmos, Paul R. (1999), "Joanne Elliott", I Have a Photographic Memory, American Mathematical Society, p. 128, ISBN 9780821886090
- ^ Mathematics at Cornell: 150 years in a nutshell, Cornell University Mathematics Department
- ^ a b Joanne Elliott at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Women in Rutgers Mathematics, Rutgers Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-09-07
- ^ Ph.D. Alumni, Brown University Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-09-07
- ^ "News and Notices", The American Mathematical Monthly, 68 (10): 1021–1030, December 1961, doi:10.1080/00029890.1961.11989810
- ^ a b c Weibel, Charles (1995), A History of Mathematics at Rutgers, Rutgers Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-09-07
- 1925 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- American women mathematicians
- Brown University alumni
- Cornell University alumni
- Swarthmore College faculty
- Mount Holyoke College faculty
- Barnard College faculty
- Brown University faculty
- Rutgers University faculty
- 20th-century American women
- 21st-century American women