Mary Cartwright 👩‍🏫

Mathematician

Mary Lucy Cartwright was born in England in 1900, on December 17th. In 1919 she decided to go to Oxford to study, being at that time 1 of the 5 women who studied at that university. After graduating, in 1923, she decided to become a math teacher for 4 years, in Worcester and Buckinghamshire.

Then she decided to return to the university to do a doctorate, her thesis spoke of "The Zeros of the integral Functions of special types", within the field of complex variable analysis. After getting his PhD he made one of his most important works regarding function theory, the Cartwright theorem, which deals with function maxims.

He obtained a research scholarship at Griton College in 1930. He worked with John E. Littlewood on the solutions of differential equations that served as a model for the development of radio and radar. And with Littlewood's studies and his theorem he began the theory of chaos.

She was appointed a member of the Royal Society in 1947, becoming the first woman mathematician to be a member of this organization, and in 1960 she became the first woman president of the mathematical society in London, she was also the first woman to obtain the Sylvester Medal in 1963, in 1968 she received the Morgan Medal, and as if that were not enough, in 1969 she received the highest British distinction when the Queen appointed her a lady of the British Empire. 

She died in Cambridge, England on April 3, 1998.

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