Dame mary lucy cartwright biography
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Mary Cartwright was born on December 17, 1900 in Aynho, Northamptonshire, England.
Dame mary lucy cartwright biography
She graduated from the University of Oxford in 1923, having attained a First in mathematics in only the second year that women were allowed to take Final degrees at Oxford. After teaching mathematics in the schools for four years, she returned to Oxford in 1928 for her D.Phil in mathematics under the supervision of G.
H. Hardy and E. C. Titchmarsh, receiving the degree in 1930. Her thesis was on "The Zeros of Integral Functions of Special Types." After finishing at Oxford, Cartwright obtained a Yarrow Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge University, where she continued her work on the theory of functions.
In 1935 she was appointed a lecturer in mathematics at Cambridge. She held the position of University Lecturer from 1935 until 1959, and then Reader in Theory of Functions from 1959 until her retirement in 1968. During this time she was on the staff of Girton College, serving as Director