Jeanne LaDuke | |
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Born | June 27, 1938 |
Nationality | American |
Education |
DePauw University University of Oregon ( PhD) |
Occupation | Mathematician |
Alice Jeanne LaDuke (born June 27, 1938) is an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis and the history of mathematics. She was also a child actress who appeared in one film ( The Green Promise).
LaDuke was raised on a farm in Posey County, [1] in southwest Indiana. Her parents were college-educated and an aunt who taught mathematics in Chicago frequently visited, bringing mathematics puzzles for LaDuke. [2]
As a child, she was cast from a field of 12,000 4-H members to play a small part in The Green Promise (1948) [1] as farm girl Jessie Wexford, the sister of Natalie Wood's character's love interest. [3] Wood and LaDuke shared a tutor who taught them both string games as well as their school curriculum. [4]
LaDuke studied mathematics at DePauw University in the 1950s, and roomed with another mathematics major from Oregon, who showed her the state on summer camping trips. [2]
She earned a master's degree in mathematics, but was unable to obtain a teaching position with it because the schools she applied to only hired men. She returned to Oregon in 1966 as a doctoral student at the University of Oregon, [2] and completed her Ph.D. in 1969 with a dissertation in mathematical analysis supervised by Kenneth A. Ross on Ep Space: Essentially a Product of Cp Spaces. [5]
After completing her doctorate, LaDuke spent the following thirty years as a faculty member of the department of mathematical sciences at DePaul University. [2] She retired in 2003. [6]
With Judy Green, she is the author of Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s ( American Mathematical Society and London Mathematical Society, 2009). [7] An annual lecture series on Women in Mathematics, Science, and Technology at DePaul is named after her. [8]
Jeanne LaDuke | |
---|---|
Born | June 27, 1938 |
Nationality | American |
Education |
DePauw University University of Oregon ( PhD) |
Occupation | Mathematician |
Alice Jeanne LaDuke (born June 27, 1938) is an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis and the history of mathematics. She was also a child actress who appeared in one film ( The Green Promise).
LaDuke was raised on a farm in Posey County, [1] in southwest Indiana. Her parents were college-educated and an aunt who taught mathematics in Chicago frequently visited, bringing mathematics puzzles for LaDuke. [2]
As a child, she was cast from a field of 12,000 4-H members to play a small part in The Green Promise (1948) [1] as farm girl Jessie Wexford, the sister of Natalie Wood's character's love interest. [3] Wood and LaDuke shared a tutor who taught them both string games as well as their school curriculum. [4]
LaDuke studied mathematics at DePauw University in the 1950s, and roomed with another mathematics major from Oregon, who showed her the state on summer camping trips. [2]
She earned a master's degree in mathematics, but was unable to obtain a teaching position with it because the schools she applied to only hired men. She returned to Oregon in 1966 as a doctoral student at the University of Oregon, [2] and completed her Ph.D. in 1969 with a dissertation in mathematical analysis supervised by Kenneth A. Ross on Ep Space: Essentially a Product of Cp Spaces. [5]
After completing her doctorate, LaDuke spent the following thirty years as a faculty member of the department of mathematical sciences at DePaul University. [2] She retired in 2003. [6]
With Judy Green, she is the author of Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s ( American Mathematical Society and London Mathematical Society, 2009). [7] An annual lecture series on Women in Mathematics, Science, and Technology at DePaul is named after her. [8]