About Louise Duffield Cummings
Lived 1870 – 1947 (aged 76). Louise Duffield Cummings was an American mathematician.
Louise Duffield Cummings (21 November 1870 – 9 May 1947) was a Canadian-born American mathematician. She was born in Hamilton, Ontario.
Education and career As a young child, Louise Duffield Cummings studied at the public schools and Collegiate Institute at Hamilton.
Cummings joined the faculty of Vassar in 1902 as an instructor; she worked with Henry White and Charlotte Scott was her supervisor. She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1924 at Toronto and again in 1932 at Zürich.
Selected publications
(Ph.D. dissertation) with H. S. White:
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Who was Louise Duffield Cummings?
Canadian-born American mathematician (1870-1947)
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Louise Duffield Cummings was born on 21 November 1870 in Hamilton.
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Louise Duffield Cummings died on 9 May 1947 in Wayne.
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Louise Duffield Cummings was a mathematician.
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Louise Duffield Cummings was American.
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