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Joanne Elliott (December 5, 1925 – March 5, 2023) was an American mathematician who specialized in potential theory, [1] who was described as a "disciple" of her co-author, probability theorist William Feller. [2] She was also a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. [1]

Elliott was born on December 5, 1925, in Providence, Rhode Island, [3] and graduated from Brown University in 1947. [3] 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. [2]

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]

Elliott died in Titusville, New Jersey on March 5, 2023, at the age of 97. [10]

References

  1. ^ a b Research Areas by Faculty, Rutgers Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-09-07
  2. ^ a b Halmos, Paul R. (1999), "Joanne Elliott", I Have a Photographic Memory, American Mathematical Society, p. 128, ISBN  9780821886090
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Mathematics at Cornell: 150 years in a nutshell, Cornell University Mathematics Department
  5. ^ a b Joanne Elliott at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Women in Rutgers Mathematics, Rutgers Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-09-07
  7. ^ Ph.D. Alumni, Brown University Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-09-07
  8. ^ "News and Notices", The American Mathematical Monthly, 68 (10): 1021–1030, December 1961, doi: 10.1080/00029890.1961.11989810
  9. ^ a b c Weibel, Charles (1995), A History of Mathematics at Rutgers, Rutgers Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-09-07
  10. ^ "Joanne Elliott". The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joanne Elliott (December 5, 1925 – March 5, 2023) was an American mathematician who specialized in potential theory, [1] who was described as a "disciple" of her co-author, probability theorist William Feller. [2] She was also a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. [1]

Elliott was born on December 5, 1925, in Providence, Rhode Island, [3] and graduated from Brown University in 1947. [3] 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. [2]

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]

Elliott died in Titusville, New Jersey on March 5, 2023, at the age of 97. [10]

References

  1. ^ a b Research Areas by Faculty, Rutgers Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-09-07
  2. ^ a b Halmos, Paul R. (1999), "Joanne Elliott", I Have a Photographic Memory, American Mathematical Society, p. 128, ISBN  9780821886090
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Mathematics at Cornell: 150 years in a nutshell, Cornell University Mathematics Department
  5. ^ a b Joanne Elliott at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Women in Rutgers Mathematics, Rutgers Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-09-07
  7. ^ Ph.D. Alumni, Brown University Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-09-07
  8. ^ "News and Notices", The American Mathematical Monthly, 68 (10): 1021–1030, December 1961, doi: 10.1080/00029890.1961.11989810
  9. ^ a b c Weibel, Charles (1995), A History of Mathematics at Rutgers, Rutgers Mathematics Department, retrieved 2019-09-07
  10. ^ "Joanne Elliott". The Mather-Hodge Funeral Home. Retrieved 1 May 2023.

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