Mathematician:Lillian Rosanoff Lieber
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Mathematician
American mathematician about whom (despite her time at Long Island University) few details survive.
Most famous for her work directed at T.C. Mits (The Celebrated Man In The Street). Her husband Hugh Gray Lieber often did the illustrations.
Some editions of her work are credited to Lilian R. Lieber, but most resources have her as Lillian.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: July 26, 1886 in Nicolaiev, Russian Empire
- 1891: Lieber moved to the US with her family
- 1908: A.B. from Barnard College
- 1908 -- 1910: Teaching at Hunter College
- 1911: M.A. from Columbia University
- 1910 -- 1912: Teaching in New York City high school system
- 1914: Ph.D. from Clark University
- 1914 -- 1915: Teaching in New York City high school system
- 1915 -- 1917: Research Fellow at Bryn Mawr College
- 1917 -- 1918: Instructor of Physics at Wells College (also acting as head of physics department)
- October 27, 1926: Married Hugh Gray Lieber
- 1934: Joined mathematics department at Long Island University (LIU) in Brooklyn, New York
- 1934: Appointed director of the Galois Institute of Mathematics (later the Galois Institute of Mathematics and Art)
- 1945: Became department chair
- 1947: Made full professor
- 1954: Retired
- Died: July 11, 1986 in Queens, New York
Publications
- 1931: Non-Euclidean Geometry
- 1932: Galois and the Theory of Groups
- 1936: The Einstein Theory of Relativity
- 1945: The Einstein Theory of Relativity (Part I of this edition is the same material published in 1936. Part II was new in this edition)
- 1949: The Einstein Theory of Relativity
- 1940: Non-Euclidean Geometry: Three Moons in Mathesis
- 1942: The Education of T. C. MITS
- 1944: The Education of T. C. MITS (revised & enlarged edition)
- 1946: Take a Number: Mathematics for the Two Billion
- 1947: Mits, Wits and Logic
- 1954: Mits, Wits, and Logic (Revised Edition)
- 1960: Mits, Wits, and Logic (3rd Edition)
- 1953: Infinity
- 1959: Lattice Theory; the Atomic Age in Mathematics
- 1961: Human Values and Science, Art and Mathematics (1st Edition)
- 1963: Mathematics: First S-t-e-p-s
Notable Quotes
- This is not intended to be
- free verse.
- Writing each phrase on a separate line
- facilitates rapid reading,
- and everyone
- is in a hurry
- nowadays.