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Women in the American Mathematical Community: The Pre-1940 Ph.D.’s

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, 08102, Camden, New Jersey

    Judy Green & Jeanne LaDuke

  2. Department of Mathematics, DePaul University, 60614, Chicago, Illinois

    Judy Green & Jeanne LaDuke

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Based on a paper presented by Jeanne LaDuke, by invitation, at the Summer Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America in Laramie, Wyoming, August 1985.

Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, A-147 Helen Brewster Owens Papers.

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Green, J., LaDuke, J. Women in the American Mathematical Community: The Pre-1940 Ph.D.’s. The Mathematical Intelligencer 9, 11–23 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023568

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