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Judith Q. Longyear | |
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Born | 20 September 1938 |
Died | 13 December 1995 | (aged 57)
Education | Ph.D 1972 Mathematics |
Alma mater | Penn State University |
Occupation | Professor |
Known for | Graph Theory / Combinatorics |
Judith Querida Longyear (20 September 1938 [1]–13 December 1995 [2]) was an American mathematician and professor whose research interests included graph theory and combinatorics. Longyear was the second woman to ever earn a mathematics Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, [3] where she studied under the supervision of Sarvadaman Chowla and wrote a thesis entitled Tactical Configurations. [4] [5] Longyear taught mathematics at several universities including California Institute of Technology, [6] Dartmouth College [7] and Wayne State University. [8] She worked on nested block designs [6] [9] and Hadamard matrices. [10]
The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's
notability guideline for academics. (September 2015) |
Judith Q. Longyear | |
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Born | 20 September 1938 |
Died | 13 December 1995 | (aged 57)
Education | Ph.D 1972 Mathematics |
Alma mater | Penn State University |
Occupation | Professor |
Known for | Graph Theory / Combinatorics |
Judith Querida Longyear (20 September 1938 [1]–13 December 1995 [2]) was an American mathematician and professor whose research interests included graph theory and combinatorics. Longyear was the second woman to ever earn a mathematics Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, [3] where she studied under the supervision of Sarvadaman Chowla and wrote a thesis entitled Tactical Configurations. [4] [5] Longyear taught mathematics at several universities including California Institute of Technology, [6] Dartmouth College [7] and Wayne State University. [8] She worked on nested block designs [6] [9] and Hadamard matrices. [10]