Grace Marie Bareis

Grace Marie Bareis (December 19, 1875 — June 15, 1962) was an American mathematician and educator. She became the first person to receive a doctorate degree in mathematics from The Ohio State University.[1][2][3]

Biography

Bareis was born in Canal Winchester, Ohio on December 19, 1875, to George Frederick and Amanda (Schoch) Bareis.[4] She attended Heidelberg College in Ohio, and graduated in 1897. After incomplete graduate studies at Bryn Mawr College and Columbia University she became a schoolteacher, teaching math and science in Philadelphia.[1][4] She returned to graduate school, completed a doctorate at Ohio State in 1909, with a dissertation in group theory entitled "Imprimitive Substitution Groups of Degree Sixteen" supervised by Harry Waldo Kuhn.[1][5][4] Bareis joined the Ohio State Faculty in 1908, where she remained until her retirement as associate professor emeritus in 1946.[1][4]

In 1915, Bareis became one of the founding members of the Mathematical Association of America.[2] She was a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and appointed to the Board of Trustees of Heidelberg College in 1935.[4]

Death and Legacy

Bareis died June 15, 1962 in Columbus.[4]

An undergraduate prize in mathematics at Ohio State and the Bareis Hall of Science at Heidelberg are both named after Bareis.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Grace M. Bareis". www.agnesscott.edu. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Grace Marie Bareis | Ohio State Department of Mathematics". math.osu.edu. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  3. ↑ Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (3 October 2016). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. American Mathematical Soc. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Grace Marie Bareis | Ohio State Department of Mathematics". math.osu.edu. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
  5. ↑ Grace Marie Bareis at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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