Statistics, computer law, and language and gender issues in mathematics. Her current academic interests include applied She has also received honorary degrees of Doctor of Humane Letters from Hastings College in 1996 and from Mount Holyoke College in 2008. Was awarded a Doctor of Laws honoris causa from the University of Nebraska Washington College of Law in 1979 and joined the Maryland Bar. Not content to just studyĪnd teach mathematics, Gray received her J.D. Scott became the first female vice president.
President of the American Mathematical Society, 70 years after Charlotte "I'm not a gentleman," was her now-famous reply. The response was that there was a gentleman's agreement that only board members would be present during board meetings. She replied that according to the bylaws, the AMS Council meetings were open to all members, and she was a duly paid member. One of her first acts as first AWM president was to show up in the room where the Council was about to meet and sit down. Shortly after she became president of the AWM, she carefully read the AMS bylaws and discovered that the AMS Council meetings were officially open to all members. Mary Gray decided that women needed to be more integral to the central decision-making process of the American Mathematical Society. Patricia Kenschaft provides the following story about one of Gray's first acts as president : Mathematics and its first president from 1971 to 1973. Mary Gray was one of the primary founders of the Association for Women in Terms as president of the faculty senate.
The university's women's studies program for 1988-1989, and served two She has servedĪs chair of the department of mathematics and statistics, was director of University and is now professor of mathematics. During this time she also marriedĪlfred Gray, himself a mathematician. Gray had appointments at the University of California,īerkeley, and at California State University, Hayward, before joining theįaculty of American University in 1968. Her thesis dissertation was entitled "Radical Subcategories." An article with this title was published in the Pacific Journal of Mathematics, Vol. in 1964 in theĪrea of ring theory, becoming only the second woman to receive a Ph.D. She earned her master's degree in 1962 and her Ph.D. Spent one year at the J.W.Goethe Universität inįrankfurt, Germany, then began graduate studies at the University of Receive her bachelor of science degree in mathematics and physics from HastingsĬollege in 1959, graduating at the top of her class.
Mary Lee Wheat Gray was born in Nebraska in 1938.
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