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  2. List of African-American mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    1999: The mathematics departments of the 25 highest-ranked universities in the US had more than 900 faculty members, of whom 4 were African-American. [7] 2003: Clarence F. Stephens is the first African-American to be honored with the Mathematical Association of America's (MAA) most prestigious award, for Distinguished Service to Mathematics. [28]

  3. Katherine Johnson - Wikipedia

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    Claytor added new mathematics courses just for Johnson. [17] She graduated summa cum laude in 1937, with degrees in mathematics and French, at age 18. [18] [14] [19] Johnson was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. [20] She took on a teaching job at a black public school in Marion, Virginia. [16] [21]

  4. David Blackwell - Wikipedia

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    He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics in 1941 [2] at the age of 22. [9] [11] [12] His doctoral advisor was Joseph L. Doob. At the time, Blackwell was the seventh African American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics in the United States and the first at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His doctoral thesis was on Markov ...

  5. Lists of mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    This is a List of Lists of mathematicians and covers notable mathematicians by nationality, ethnicity, religion, profession and other characteristics. Alphabetical lists are also available (see table to the right).

  6. Dudley Weldon Woodard - Wikipedia

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    Dudley Weldon Woodard (October 3, 1881 – July 1, 1965) was a Galveston-born American mathematician and professor, and the second African-American to earn a PhD in mathematics; the first was Woodard's mentor Elbert Frank Cox, who earned a PhD from Cornell in 1925).

  7. Scott W. Williams - Wikipedia

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    In 1975, he was the first topologist to apply the concept of scales (now known as b = d) to give a partial solution of the famous Box Product problem, which is still unsettled today. Dr. Williams is one of two founders [5] of Black and Third World Mathematicians, which in 1971 became the National Association of Mathematicians. Together with ...

  8. Clarence F. Stephens - Wikipedia

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    Clarence Francis Stephens (July 24, 1917 – March 5, 2018) was the ninth African American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. He is credited with inspiring students and faculty at SUNY Potsdam to form the most successful United States undergraduate mathematics degree programs in the past century.

  9. Gloria Ford Gilmer - Wikipedia

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    Much of Gilmer's work has been in ethnomathematics; she was described as a "leader in the field" by Scott W. Williams, a mathematics professor at SUNY Buffalo. [9]An example of this research is when, based on fieldwork in New York and Baltimore, Gilmer and her assistants, 14-year-old Stephanie Desgrottes and teacher Mary Potter, observed and interviewed both hair stylists and customers in the ...