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Grace Chisholm Young (née Chisholm, 15 March 1868 – 29 March 1944) was an English mathematician. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge , England and continued her studies at Göttingen University in Germany, where in 1895 she received a doctorate. [ 1 ]
Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), English mathematician, first woman to receive a German doctorate; Sonya Christian, Indian mathematician and American community college administrator; YoungJu Choie (born 1959), Korean number theorist; Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923–2025), French mathematician and physicist, first woman elected to the French ...
This is a list of alumni of Girton College, Cambridge. Margrethe II of Denmark Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean , British peer Sandi Toksvig , comedian and author Hisako, Princess Takamado , member of the Japanese Imperial Family Dina bint 'Abdu'l-Hamid , Queen consort of Jordan
William Henry Young FRS [1] (London, 20 October 1863 – Lausanne, 7 July 1942) was an English mathematician. Young was educated at City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge . [ 2 ] He worked on measure theory , Fourier series , differential calculus , amongst other fields, and made contributions to the study of functions of several ...
She is the daughter of mathematician Laurence Chisholm Young and through him the granddaughter of mathematicians Grace Chisholm Young and William Henry Young. [2] Her family moved to Wisconsin in 1949, and she graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1966 after three years of study. [1]
The Julia Child Award Young received in 2022 came with a generous $50,000 grant, which Young chose to evenly divide between five organizations in New York City, Boston, Oakland, San Francisco and ...
Laurence Chisholm Young (14 July 1905 – 24 December 2000) was a British mathematician known for his contributions to measure theory, the calculus of variations, optimal control theory, and potential theory. He was the son of William Henry Young and Grace Chisholm Young, both prominent mathematicians. He moved to the US in 1949 but never ...
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