Helen Abbot Merrill
Helen Abbot Merrill (1864 – 1949) was an American mathematician, educator and textbook author.[1]
Contents
1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 References
4 External links
Biography
Born March 30, 1876 to a New Jersey insurance claims adjuster and a housewife, and raised in Massachusetts, her family tree included colonial settlers. Young Helen's formal education started at a high school in Massachusetts, and after graduating she went to Wellesley College, where she intended to major in Greek and Latin. Unusually, the mathematics faculty at the college consisted mostly of women, including Ellen Hayes, and before completing her first years, Helen Merrill had decided to major in mathematics instead of languages. In 1893 she began teaching at Wellesley while also studying and guest lecturing abroad. In 1903 she earned a PhD in mathematics at Yale under the direction of James Pierpont. In 1920 she was appointed vice-president of the Mathematical Association of America. Upon her retirement from Wellesley, she was given the title Professor Emerita.
At Wellesley, Merrill wrote two textbooks with Clara Eliza Smith, Selected Topics in Higher Algebra (Norwood, 1914) and A First Course in Higher Algebra (Macmillan, 1917).[2][3]
She also wrote as a popularizer a book titled Mathematical Excursions in 1933.[4]
Bibliography
- C. Henrion "Helen Abbot Merrill" in Women of Mathematics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook L. Grinstein, P. Campbell, ed.s New York: Greenwood Press (1987): 147 - 151
References
^ Helen Abbot Merrill - Agnes Scott College
^ Riddle, Larry (February 25, 2016), "Clara Eliza Smith", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College, retrieved 2018-05-08.mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ Reviews of A First Course in Higher Algebra:
The Journal of Education, 87 (2): 49, January 1918, JSTOR 42826577CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
Wells, Mary E. (February 1918), The American Mathematical Monthly, 25 (2): 72–74, doi:10.2307/2971993CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
Jourdain, Philip E. B. (April 1918), Science Progress, 12 (48): 684, JSTOR 43426456CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
^ Reviews of Mathematical Excursions:
The Mathematics Teacher, 26 (5): 315, May 1933, JSTOR 27951594CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
Wells, Mary E. (December 1933), The American Mathematical Monthly, 40 (10): 602–603, doi:10.2307/2301690CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
Smith, David Eugene (December 1933), The Mathematics Teacher, 26 (8): 499–501, JSTOR 27951644CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
P. W. L. C. (January 1934), The Marginal Fifty per Cent, Junior-Senior High School Clearing House, 8 (5): 319, JSTOR 30174218CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
Inglis, Alex (February 1935), The Mathematical Gazette, 19 (232): 62, doi:10.2307/3606651CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
Greitzer, Samuel L. (October 1958), The Mathematics Teacher, 51 (6): 481, JSTOR 27955732CS1 maint: Untitled periodical (link)
This article incorporates material from Helen Merrill on PlanetMath, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
External links
Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2008). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics — The Pre-1940 PhD's. History of Mathematics. 34 (1st ed.). American Mathematical Society, The London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5. Biography on p. 415-418 of the Supplementary Material at AMS
File:Woman s Who s who of America.pdf, 1914, p. 557 (= p. 546 in Pdf)
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