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The Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science was established by legislative action in 2006 by the Kansas Legislature. [1] The establishment of this program stemmed from national concern regarding anticipated shortages of students who would be sufficiently well prepared in mathematical and scientific problem solving.
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Georgia Caldwell Smith (1909–1961) was one of the first African-American women to gain a bachelor's degree in mathematics. [1] When she was 51, she earned a Ph.D. in mathematics, one of the earliest by an African-American woman, awarded posthumously in 1961. [2] [3] Smith was the head of the Department of Mathematics at Spelman College. [2] [4]
Errett Albert Bishop (July 14, 1928 – April 14, 1983) [1] was an American mathematician known for his work on analysis. He is best known for developing constructive analysis in his 1967 Foundations of Constructive Analysis, where he proved most of the important theorems in real analysis using "constructivist" methods.
Kenneth Ira Appel (October 8, 1932 – April 19, 2013) was an American mathematician who in 1976, with colleague Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, solved the four-color theorem, one of the most famous problems in mathematics.
Kenneth Powers Williams was born in Urbana, Ohio on August 25, 1887, to John H. and Eva Augusta (Powers) Williams. He attended Clark College from 1905 to 1906. Williams then enrolled at Indiana University where he received his A.B. in 1908 and his A.M. degree in 1909.
Skelton, Lawrence H. (1998) "A Brief History of the Kansas Academy of Science" Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 101(3/4): pp. 140–145; Wooster, Lyman C. (1937) "Some of the Founders and Workers of the Kansas Natural History Society and the Kansas Academy of Science" Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 40: pp. 215–220
Being the first black woman to receive a mathematics doctorate from the University of Texas Lillian Katie Bradley (October 15, 1921 [ 1 ] – February 11, 1995 [ 2 ] ) was an American mathematician and mathematics educator who in 1960 became the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in any subject at the University of Texas at Austin .