Elizabeth Adam McHarg (22 April 1923 – 29 April 1999) ^[1] was a Scottish mathematician who in 1965 became the first female president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. ^{[2] [3]}

Education

McHarg studied at the Glasgow High School for Girls and then the University of Glasgow, earning a master's degree with first class honours in mathematics and natural philosophy in 1943. The university awarded her the Thomas Logan Medal and a George A Clark scholarship, funding her as a researcher at Girton College, Cambridge. ^[1] At Girton, she studied nonlinear partial differential equations with Mary Cartwright, and completed her Ph.D. in 1948. ^{[1] [4]}

Career and contributions

McHarg returned to the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in 1948. There, she became an expert in special functions. ^[1] She also translated the text Differential Equations by Francesco Tricomi from Italian into English; her translation was published in 1961 by Hafner and republished in 2012 by Dover Publications. ^{[1] [5]}

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