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Clara Eliza Smith

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in Pennsylvania from 1889 until 1898, she returned to Yale for graduate study in mathematics in 1901, along the way earning a bachelor's degree by examination from Mount Holyoke in 1902. In 1904, she completed a Ph.D. at
45:. Her studies in the seminary program included geometry and trigonometry, but the college did not offer degrees at that time. She completed the program in 1885. After working as an art teacher at the 446: 436: 416: 73:, but by 1908 she had returned to Wellesley as a regular instructor. In 1924 she became the Helen Day Gould Professor. She retired in 1934. 441: 196: 343: 309: 257: 421: 210: 46: 431: 387: 426: 65:
She joined the Wellesley faculty in 1906, as a substitute teacher of mathematics. She then briefly taught at the
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At Wellesley, Smith became known for her course in complex analysis. She also wrote two textbooks with
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Grinstein, Louise S. (1976), "Some 'forgotten' women of mathematics: A who was who",
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Representation of an Arbitrary Function by means of Bessel's Functions
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The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science, Vol. 2: Lā€“Z
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Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's
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who became the Helen Day Gould Professor of Mathematics at
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Smith was the daughter of Georgiana and Edward Smith, of
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Index

complex analysis
Wellesley College
Northford, Connecticut
Mount Holyoke College
Yale University
Bloomsburg State Normal School
Yale University
Bessel functions
Western College for Women
Oxford, Ohio
Helen Abbot Merrill



"Clara Eliza Smith"


Smith family papers, 1862ā€“1954



doi
10.1093/philmat/s1-13-14.1.73
Green, Judy
LaDuke, Jeanne
Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's
p. 26
ISBN
978-0-8218-9674-7
JSTOR

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