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Judy Green (mathematician)

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Judy Green
Born1943 (1943)
Academic background
EducationCornell University,
Yale University
Alma materUniversity of Maryland, College Park
ThesisConsistency Properties for Uncountable Finite-Quantifier Languages (1972)
Doctoral advisorCarol Karp
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics
InstitutionsRutgers University,
Marymount University
Main interestsWomen in mathematics
Notable worksWomen in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s

Judith (Judy) Green (born 1943)[1] is an American logician and historian of mathematics who studies women in mathematics.[2] She is a founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics;[3][4] she has also served as its vice president, and as the vice president of the American Association of University Professors.[2]

Education and career

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Green earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University. She completed a master's degree at Yale University, and a Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park.[2] Her dissertation, supervised by Carol Karp and finished in 1972, was Consistency Properties for Uncountable Finite-Quantifier Languages.[5]

Green was elected an AMS Member at Large in 1975 and served for three years until 1977.[6] She belonged to the faculty of Rutgers University before moving to Marymount University in 1989. After retiring from Marymount in 2007, she became a volunteer at the National Museum of American History.[2]

Book

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With Jeanne LaDuke, she wrote Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s (American Mathematical Society and London Mathematical Society, 2009). This was a biographical study of the first women in the U.S. to earn doctorates in mathematics.[7]

Recognition

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She is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2018-12-07.
  2. ^ a b c d Dr. Judy Green, Professor Emerita, Marymount University, retrieved 2017-11-09
  3. ^ Blum, Lenore (September 1991), "A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents' Perspectives", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 38 (7): 738–774. See section "What we did ... (In the beginning): Atlantic City".
  4. ^ Kenschaft, Patricia C. (2005), Change is Possible: Stories of Women and Minorities in Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, p. 131, ISBN 9780821837481
  5. ^ Judy Green at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ "AMS Committees". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  7. ^ Reviews of Pioneering Women in American Mathematics:
  8. ^ 2019 Class of AWM Fellows, Association for Women in Mathematics, retrieved 2019-01-08