Mary lucy cartwright short biography
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Mary Cartwright facts for kids
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright, DBE, FRS, FRSE (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) was a British mathematician. She was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory. Along with J. E. Littlewood, Cartwright saw many solutions to a problem which would later be seen as an example of the butterfly effect.
Early life and education
Mary Cartwright was born on 17 December 1900, in Aynho, Northamptonshire, where her father William Digby was vicar. She had four siblings, two older and two younger: John (born 1896), Nigel (born 1898), Jane (born 1905), and William (born 1907).
Her early education was at Leamington High School (1912–1915), and then at Gravely Manor School in Boscombe (1915–1916) before completion in Godolphin School in Salisbury (1916–1919).
Cartwright studied mathematics at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She graduated in 1923 with a first
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A Point of View: Mary, queen of maths
She lived long enough to see the field in which she had made those early, important discoveries become a major part of modern mathematics, and to see it take its place in the popular imagination. She was, however, characteristically modest to the end about the part she had played.
Freeman Dyson claims that Littlewood did not understand the importance of the work that he and Cartwright had done: "Only Cartwright understood the importance of her work as the foundation of chaos theory, and she is not a person who likes to blow her own trumpet."
He records, however, that shortly before her death, he received an indignant letter from Cartwright, scolding him for crediting her with more than she deserved.
Dame Mary Cartwright died in 1998 at the age of 97. In one of the many obituaries paying tribute to her, a friend and colleague described her as "a person who combined distinction of achievement with a notable lack of self-import
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Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright
månad 17, 1900 - April 3, 1998
Mary Cartwright was born on December 17, 1900 in Aynho, Northamptonshire, England. She graduated from the University of Oxford in 1923, having attained a First in mathematics in only the second year that women were allowed to take sista degrees at Oxford. After teaching mathematics in the schools for four years, she returned to Oxford in 1928 for her D.Phil in mathematics beneath the supervision of G. H. Hardy and E. C. Titchmarsh, receiving the degree in 1930. Her thesis was on "The Zeros of Integral Functions of Special Types." This was published in two parts in the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 1 (1930) [Abstract] and Vol. 2 (1931) [Abstract]. After finishing at Oxford, Cartwright obtained a rölleka Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge University, where she continued her work on the theory of functions. In 1935 she was appointed a lecturer in mathematics at Cambridge. She held the position of Un