Dorothy Maharam
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Dorothy Maharam Stone is an American mathematician who made important contributions to measure theory. Her husband was British mathematician Arthur Harold Stone
.
She earned her B.S. degree at Carnegie Institute of Technology
in 1937 and graduated from Bryn Mawr College
with a dissertation entitled On measure in abstract sets. Part of her thesis was published in Transactions of AMS. Then she went on to a postdoc at Institute for Advanced Study
in Princeton, where she first met Arthur Harold Stone
. They married in April 1942.
She pioneered the research of finitely additive measures on integers.
They both lectured at various universities in the USA and Great Britain. Their two children, David and Ellen, have both become mathematicians as well.
She retired in 2001. Her husband, Arthur Stone, died August 6, 2000.
Arthur Harold Stone
Arthur Harold Stone was a British mathematician born in London, who worked mostly in topology. His wife was American mathematician Dorothy Maharam...
.
She earned her B.S. degree at Carnegie Institute of Technology
Carnegie Institute of Technology
The Carnegie Institute of Technology , is the name for Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. It was first called the Carnegie Technical Schools, or Carnegie Tech, when it was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie who intended to build a “first class technical school” in Pittsburgh,...
in 1937 and graduated from Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College is a women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, ten miles west of Philadelphia. The name "Bryn Mawr" means "big hill" in Welsh....
with a dissertation entitled On measure in abstract sets. Part of her thesis was published in Transactions of AMS. Then she went on to a postdoc at Institute for Advanced Study
Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study, located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, is an independent postgraduate center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It was founded in 1930 by Abraham Flexner...
in Princeton, where she first met Arthur Harold Stone
Arthur Harold Stone
Arthur Harold Stone was a British mathematician born in London, who worked mostly in topology. His wife was American mathematician Dorothy Maharam...
. They married in April 1942.
She pioneered the research of finitely additive measures on integers.
They both lectured at various universities in the USA and Great Britain. Their two children, David and Ellen, have both become mathematicians as well.
She retired in 2001. Her husband, Arthur Stone, died August 6, 2000.
- Maharam's theoremMaharam's theoremIn mathematics, Maharam's theorem is a deep result about the decomposability of measure spaces, which plays an important role in the theory of Banach spaces. In brief, it states that every complete measure space is decomposable into "non-atomic parts" , and "purely atomic parts", using the...
is a statement about the decomposability of complete measure spaces.