Mathematician:Grace Emily Chisholm Young

Mathematician

English mathematician who became the first woman to receive a doctorate in Germany, in any field.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 15 March 1868 in Haslemere, Surrey, UK
• Died: 29 March 1944 in Croydon, Surrey, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Denjoy-Young-Saks Theorem (with Arnaud Denjoy and Stanisław Saks)

Publications

• 1895: The algebraic groups of spherical trigonometry
• 1905: The First Book of Geometry (with William Henry Young)
• 1906: Bimbo: A Little Real Story for Jill and Molly
• 1906: The Theory of Sets of Points (with William Henry Young)
• 1907: Bimbo and the Frogs: Another Real Story

Also known as

Her name at birth was Grace Emily Chisholm: Young was her married name.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Grace Emily Chisholm Young": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive