Daphne Letitia Smith was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), [1] in 1985. [2] She is the president of the National Alumnae Association of Spelman College, her alma mater, and a member of Spelman's Board of Trustees; in 2011 she was honored with the Alumnae Association's Hall of Fame Award, "the organization’s highest honor". [3]
Smith is originally from Ocala, Florida, [1] and graduated from Spelman College in 1980. [3] At MIT, she studied probability theory as a student of Richard M. Dudley; her dissertation was Vapnik-Červonenkis Classes and the Supremum Distribution of a Gaussian Process. [2] She taught at the University of Georgia, Georgia State University and Spelman College before turning to industry, where she has worked as a mathematician and healthcare analyst specializing in disease management. [3]
References
- ^ a b Blackman, Terrence Richard; Belcher, John (October 2017), "Using a Mathematics Cultural Resonance Approach for Building Capacity in the Mathematical Sciences for African American Communities", in Jao, Limin; Radakovic, Nenad (eds.), Transdisciplinarity in Mathematics Education: Blurring Disciplinary Boundaries, Springer, pp. 125–149, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-63624-5_7, ISBN 978-3-319-63624-5. See in particular p. 146.
- ^ a b Daphne L. Smith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c Representative: Daphne L. Smith, C'80, Spelman College, retrieved 2018-05-02
External links
- Daphne L. Smith, Mathematician of the African Diaspora, Scott W. Williams, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Living people
- People from Ocala, Florida
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- African-American mathematicians
- African-American women mathematicians
- Probability theorists
- Spelman College alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
- University of Georgia faculty
- Georgia State University faculty
- Spelman College faculty
- 20th-century American women mathematicians
Daphne Letitia Smith was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), [1] in 1985. [2] She is the president of the National Alumnae Association of Spelman College, her alma mater, and a member of Spelman's Board of Trustees; in 2011 she was honored with the Alumnae Association's Hall of Fame Award, "the organization’s highest honor". [3]
Smith is originally from Ocala, Florida, [1] and graduated from Spelman College in 1980. [3] At MIT, she studied probability theory as a student of Richard M. Dudley; her dissertation was Vapnik-Červonenkis Classes and the Supremum Distribution of a Gaussian Process. [2] She taught at the University of Georgia, Georgia State University and Spelman College before turning to industry, where she has worked as a mathematician and healthcare analyst specializing in disease management. [3]
References
- ^ a b Blackman, Terrence Richard; Belcher, John (October 2017), "Using a Mathematics Cultural Resonance Approach for Building Capacity in the Mathematical Sciences for African American Communities", in Jao, Limin; Radakovic, Nenad (eds.), Transdisciplinarity in Mathematics Education: Blurring Disciplinary Boundaries, Springer, pp. 125–149, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-63624-5_7, ISBN 978-3-319-63624-5. See in particular p. 146.
- ^ a b Daphne L. Smith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c Representative: Daphne L. Smith, C'80, Spelman College, retrieved 2018-05-02
External links
- Daphne L. Smith, Mathematician of the African Diaspora, Scott W. Williams, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Living people
- People from Ocala, Florida
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- African-American mathematicians
- African-American women mathematicians
- Probability theorists
- Spelman College alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
- University of Georgia faculty
- Georgia State University faculty
- Spelman College faculty
- 20th-century American women mathematicians