Mary Cannell

Early life Cannell was educated in Liverpool, with a scholarship to the selective private Merchant Taylors' School for Girls followed by a BA from the University of Liverpool in French with History subsidiary. She then gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and held teaching posts in the UK and France. A second edition was published posthumously by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2001. Cannell and colleagues at Nottingham led the recovery of his legacy, completing the restoration of his windmill in time for his bicentenary in 1993.

Papers of D.M. Cannell relating to her research on George Green are held within the George Green Collection at the University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections.

She was made a Fellow of the University of Nottingham in 1995. She also became an honorary graduate of the Open University in 1996, and of Nottingham Trent University in 2000, after her death

Selected publications D. M. Cannell, "George Green: an enigmatic mathematician", (1999) American Mathematical Monthly, 106, 136–51 D.M. Cannel and N.J. Lord, "George Green: Mathematician and Physicist", (1993) The Mathematical Gazette vol. 77, (478), 26-51. D.M. Cannell, George Green, Mathematician and Physicist, 1793-1841: The Background to His Life and Work. London: The Athlone Press. Second edition published 2001 by The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.