May Beenken

May Margaret Beenken (22 October 1901 – 21 December 1988) was an American mathematician.

Life

Beenken was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Sophie Kirn and Henry Beenken.[1]

Career

Beenken completed her PhD at the University of Chicago in 1928. Her doctoral advisor was Ernest Preston Lane and her thesis was titled Surfaces in Five-Dimensional Space.[2] She later became an instructor at Oshkosh Teacher's College.[1] She also served as a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]

References
  1. Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2009). "Beenken, Mary M.". Pioneering women in American mathematics : the pre-1940 PhD's. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. pp. 140–141. ISBN 9780821843765. Biography on p.72-73 of the Supplementary Material at AMS
  2. "May Margaret Beenken". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 3 February 2017.


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