Louise Hay (mathematician)
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Louise Hay was born in MetzMetz
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, Lorraine, in 1935. Her family immigrated to New York
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, in 1946. Louise Hay was a founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics
Association for Women in Mathematics
The Association for Women in Mathematics is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences. Equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences are promoted. The AWM was...
. Her master's thesis was "An Axiomatization of the Infinitely Many-Valued Predicate Calculus." In 1990 the AWM established the Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education. Louise Hay was recognized for her contributions to mathematical logic and for her leadership as the head of the Mathematics, Statistics and Computer science Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois at Chicago
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Sources
- Hay, Louise. How I became a mathematician, Newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 1989 (p 8–10).
- Soare, Robert I. Louise Hay: 1935–1989, Newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 1990, ( p 3–4 ).
- Hughes, Rhonda. Fond Remembrances of Louise Hay, Newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, 1990, (p. 4–6).