Mary Graustein

Mary Graustein (April 12, 1884 – July 18, 1972) was a mathematician and university professor, and was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics at Radcliffe College.

As was common practice at that time, Mary Curtis took a teaching position at Leominster High School in Westminster, where she taught German, algebra and geometry for two years, traveling to Europe for the summer of 1907.

Professor From 1917 to 1918, Dr. Mary Curtis taught at the College for Women at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, From 1918 to 1920, she was an instructor and then until 1921 assistant professor at Wellesley College. In the summer of 1920 she returned to Leipzig, Germany. Mary's mathematical research did not go unnoticed. According to mathematician Judy Green: at 88 in Gardner, Massachusetts, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.

Memberships

American Mathematical Society Phi Beta Kappa Sigma Xi

Selected publications

1918: The existence of the functions of the elliptic cylinder. In: Ann. Of Math. 2nd ser., Volume 20. 1918: On the rectifiability of a twisted cubic. In: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 25. 1920: On the rectifiability of a twisted cubic. In: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 26. 1921: On skew parabolas. In: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 27. 1922: Curves invariant under point-transformations of special type. In: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 23.