Judy Green | |
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Born | 1943 |
Academic background | |
Education | Cornell University, Yale University |
Alma mater | University of Maryland, College Park |
Thesis | Consistency Properties for Uncountable Finite-Quantifier Languages (1972) |
Doctoral advisor | Carol Karp |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Mathematics |
Institutions | Rutgers University, Marymount University |
Main interests | Women in mathematics |
Notable works | Women 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]
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]
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]
She is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics. [8]
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