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Evelyn Granville

American mathematician
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Also known as: Evelyn Boyd
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Née:
Evelyn Boyd
Born:
May 1, 1924, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Died:
June 27, 2023, Silver Spring, Maryland (aged 99)
Subjects Of Study:
computer program
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Evelyn Granville (born May 1, 1924, Washington, D.C., U.S.—died June 27, 2023, Silver Spring, Maryland) was an American mathematician who was one of the first African American women to receive a doctoral degree in mathematics. Boyd received an undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1945. She received a doctoral degree in mathematics in 1949 from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, where she studied under Einar Hille. She was the second African American woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics. From 1949 to 1950 she had a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University, and from ...(100 of 393 words)

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