Evelyn boyd granville mathematician

American academic (–)

Evelyn Boyd Granville (May 1, – June 27, ) was the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American university;^[2] she earned it in from Yale University. She graduated from Smith College in ^[3][4][5] She performed pioneering work in the field of computing.^{[1][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]}

Education

Evelyn Boyd was born in Washington, D.C.; her father worked odd jobs due to the Great nedstämdhet but separated from her mother when Boyd was young. Boyd and her older sister were raised by her mother and aunt, who both worked at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. She was valedictorian at Dunbar High School, which at that time was a segregated but academically competitive school for black students in Washington.^[3][4]

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Evelyn Boyd Granville

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My Life as a Mathematician, by Evelyn Boyd Granville

This article originally appeared in SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, Vol 6, No. 2 (Fall ), p It is copyrighted by Sage Women's Educational Press, Inc., and is reproduced with their permission and the permission of Professor Evelyn Granville.

Fortunately for me as I was growing up, I never heard the theory that females aren't equipped mentally to succeed in mathematics, and my generation did not hear terms such as "permanent underclass," "disadvantaged" and "underprivileged." Our parents and teachers preached over and over again that education is the vehicle to a productive life, and through diligent study and application we could succeed at whatever we attempted to do. As a child growing up in the thirties in Washington, D.C., I was aware that segregation placed many limitations on Negroes, (We were not referred to as Blacks in those days.) However, daily one came in contact with N

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Born: May 1, Birthplace: Washington, D.C.	photo by Margaret Murray
A.B. Mathematics () Smith College; M.A. Mathematics () Yale University Ph.D. Mathematics () Yale University thesis: On Laguerre Series in the Complex Domain; Advisor: C. Einar Hille

Granville was born in Washington, D.C., on May 1, Her father, William Boyd, worked as a custodian in their apartment building; he did not stay with the family, however, and Granville was raised by her mother, Julia Walker Boyd, and her mother's twin sister, Louise Walker, both of whom worked as examiners for the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Granville and her sister Doris, who was a year and a half older, often spent portions of their summers at the farm of a family friend in Linden, Virginia.

Evelyn Boyd grew up in Washington, D.C. and attended the segregated Dunbar High School (from which she graduated as valedictorian) maintained high academic standards. Several of its faculty held de