Mina Rees

Mina Rees
Nascimento	Mina Spiegel Rees 2 de agosto de 1902 Cleveland
Morte	25 de outubro de 1997 (95 anos) Nova Iorque
Cidadania	Estados Unidos
Alma mater	Universidade Columbia Universidade de Chicago Hunter College Hunter College High School
Ocupação	matemática, professora universitária, educadora
Prêmios	Prêmio Pioneiro da Computação (1989) Medalha Bem-Estar Público (1983) Prêmio Elizabeth Blakwell (1971) President's Certificate of Merit (1946) King's Medal for Service in the Cause of Freedom (1946)
Empregador(a)	Hunter College, Hunter College, Applied Mathematics Panel, Escritório de Pesquisa Naval dos Estados Unidos, Hunter College, Universidade da Cidade de Nova Iorque, Hunter College High School
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Mina Spiegel Rees (2 de agosto de 1902 – 25 de outubro de 1997) foi uma matemática estadunidense.^[1] Foi a primeira mulher presidente da Associação Americana para o Avanço da Ciência (1971) e chefe do departamento de matemática do Office of Naval Research dos Estados Unidos.^[2] Recebeu a Medalha Bem-Estar Público.

Publicações selecionadas

1932: "Division algebras associated with an equation whose group has four generators," American Journal of Mathematics 54: 51-65.
1950: "The federal computing machine program" Science 112: 731-736.
1952: (with Richard Courant and Eugene Isaacson) "On the solution of nonlinear hyperbolic differential equations by finite differences", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 5: 243-255.

↑ Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2008). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics — The Pre-1940 PhD's. Col: History of Mathematics. 34 1st ed. [S.l.]: American Mathematical Society, The London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5 Biography on p.516-523 of the Supplementary Material at AMS
↑ Shell-Gellasch, Amy. «Mina Rees and the Funding of the Mathematical Sciences». The American Mathematical Monthly. 109 (10): 886
↑ Mina S. Rees, 1989 Computer Pioneer Award from IEEE Computer Society

Kathleen Broome Williams (2001) Improbable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II., Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, ISBN 978-1-55750-961-1 .
- Williams' book focuses on the life of Mina Rees and three other notable women: Mary Sears (1905–1997); Florence van Straten (1913–1992); Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992).
Amy Shell-Gellasch (2001) In Service to Mathematics: The Life and Work of Mina Rees., Docent Press, Boston, ISBN 978-0-9837004-1-8.
- Shell-Gellasch's book covers Rees' entire life. It includes an extensive chapter on her PhD dissertation under L. E. Dickson at the University of Chicago as well as photographs from the CUNY archive.