Edna Kramer
Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar | |
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| Born | May 11, 1902 Manhattan, New York, US |
| Died | July 9, 1984 (aged 82) Manhattan, New York, US |
Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar (May 11, 1902 – July 9, 1984), born Edna Ernestine Kramer, was an American mathematician and author of mathematics books.
Kramer was born in Manhattan to Jewish immigrants.[1] She earned her B.A. summa cum laude in mathematics from Hunter College in 1922.[2] While teaching at local high schools, she earned her M.A. in 1925 and Ph.D. in 1930 in mathematics (with a minor in physics) from Columbia University with Edward Kasner as her advisor.
She wrote The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics, A First Course in Educational Statistics, Mathematics Takes Wings: An Aviation Supplement to Secondary Mathematics, and The Main Stream of Mathematics.[3]
Kramer married the French teacher Benedict Taxier Lassar on July 2, 1935. Kramer-Lassar died at the age of 82 in Manhattan of Parkinson's disease.[3]
Works
[edit | edit source]- The Main Stream of Mathematics [sic] (1951)
- The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics (1970)
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Biography from Agnes Scott College
- MacTutor biography
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- 1902 births
- 1984 deaths
- Hunter College alumni
- Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- People from Manhattan
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- Deaths from Parkinson's disease in New York (state)
- 20th-century American women mathematicians
- Mathematicians from New York (state)
- American mathematician stubs