Grace Chisholm Young (March 15, 1868 - March 29, 1944) was an English mathematician. Events 44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Events 1461 - Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton - Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of Mathematics. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, England and continued her studies at Göttingen University in Germany, where in 1895 she became the first woman to receive a doctorate in any field in that country. Girton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The University of Göttingen ( German: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) is a University in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Her early writings were published under the name of her husband, William Henry Young, and they collaborated on mathematical work throughout their lives. William Henry Young ( London, October 20, 1863 - Lausanne, July 7, 1942) was a mathematician educated at University For her work on calculus (1914-16), she was awarded the Gamble Prize. Calculus ( Latin, calculus, a small stone used for counting is a branch of Mathematics that includes the study of limits, Derivatives
Her son, Laurence Chisholm Young, was also a prominent mathematician. Laurence Chisholm Young ( 14 July 1905 &ndash 24 December 2000) was a Mathematician known for his contributions to Measure theory She also has a living granddaughter, Sylvia Wiegand.
External links
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F. , “Grace Chisholm Young”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Biography at the Biographies of Women Mathematicians web site
- University of Liverpool: Papers of Professor William Henry Young and Grace Chisholm Young