Nola Anderson Haynes

Nola Anderson Haynes (1897–1996) was an American mathematician and one of the few women to earn her PhD in math in the United States before World War II.

Biography Nola Lee Anderson was born January 9, 1897, on a farm in 1897 in Linn County, Missouri, as one of four children. Her early education took place in a one-room schoolhouse; she graduated from the high school in Bucklin, Missouri in 1915 and found a job teaching school.

In the fall of 1919, Anderson enrolled at the University of Missouri at age 22, and graduated three years later with a BS in education. In 1922, she started teaching high school and after two years and she took a job teaching mathematics at the Central College for Women in Lexington, Missouri. She returned to the University of Missouri in Columbia, for her master's degree with a major in mathematics and a minor in astronomy. She received her doctorate in 1929, in mathematics and astronomy, under Louis Ingold (1872–1935) with the dissertation An Extension of Maschke's Symbolism. One member of her advisory board was the head of the Astronomy department, Eli Stuart Haynes, who would later become her husband.

President, League of Women Voters, Columbia, 1939–1941 National Society Colonial Dames American (Role of Honor award 1980) Sigma Xi Pi Lambda Theta Pi Mu Epsilon