Aubrey E. Landry Explained

Aubrey Edward Landry
Citizenship:United States (naturalized October 6, 1913)[1]
Birth Date:24 November 1880
Birth Place:Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada
Death Place:Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Aubrey Edward Landry (1880–1972) was a Canadian-American mathematician. He was the dissertation director of many of the earliest women to earn doctorates in mathematics in the United States, including the first African American woman, Euphemia Haynes.[2]

Early life and education

He was born in Westmorland, New Brunswick, to Elizabeth R. "Eliza" McSweeney Landry and Tilman T. Landry, and was the oldest of nine children. He received an AB degree (bachelor's) from Harvard University in 1900, a PhD at The Johns Hopkins University in 1907 with the dissertation: "A Geometrical Application of Binary Syzygies" under Frank Morley.[3]

Career and mentorship of women

Landry's dissertation director was Frank Morley, himself also a frequent advisor to women doctoral candidates (see inset quote below).[4] Landry spent his career at Catholic University of America, where he began as a teaching fellow following his graduation from Harvard. He joined the permanent faculty in 1902 after receiving his doctorate at Johns Hopkins. He served as mathematics department chairman for 45 years and directed 28 dissertations until his retirement in 1952, out of which 18 went to women.[5] Lenore Blum writes,All but two of these women were Roman Catholic sisters, a historical phenomenon nationwide because Catholic men's universities were sometimes open by special arrangement to nuns.[6]

Notable women mentored

This list is incomplete, as Landry directed the dissertations of at least 18 women. Some of these come from the Mathematics Genealogy Project, and others from Pioneering Women in American Mathematics.[7]

  1. Mary Nicholas Arnoldy, Ph.D. 1937, Dissertation: "The Reality of the Double Tangents of the Rational Symmetric Quartic Curve."
  2. Leonarda Burke, Ph.D. 1931, Dissertation: "On a case of the triangles in-and-circumscribed to a rational quartic curve with a line of symmetry."
  3. Mary Charlotte Fowler, Ph.D. 1937, Dissertation: "The discriminant of the sextic of double point parameters of the plane rational quartic curve."
  4. Catherine Francis Galvin, Ph.D. 1938, Dissertation: "Two Geometrical Representations of the Symmetric Correspondence C(N,N) with Their Interrelations."
  5. Mary de Lellis Gough, Ph.D. 1931, first known Irish woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics. Dissertation: "On the Condition for the Existence of Triangles In-and-Circumscribed to Certain Types of Rational Quartic Curve and Having a Common Side."[8]
  6. Euphemia Haynes, Ph.D. 1943, Dissertation: "Determination of Sets of Independent Conditions Characterizing Certain Special Cases of Symmetric Correspondences."[9]
  7. Mary Laetitia Hill, Ph.D. 1935, Dissertation: "The Number and Reality of Quadrilaterals In-and-Circumscribed to a Rational Unicuspidal Quartic with Real Tangents from the Cusp."
  8. Mary Gervase Kelley, Ph.D. 1917, Dissertation: "On the Cardioids Fulfilling Certain Assigned Conditions."
  9. Marie Cecilia Mangold, Ph.D. 1929, Dissertation: "The Loci Described by the Vertices of Singly Infinite Systems of Triangles Circumscribed about a Fixed Conic."
  10. Charles Mary Morrison, Ph.D. 1931, Dissertation: "The Triangles In-and-Circumscribed to the Biflecnodal Rational Quartic."
  11. M. Henrietta Reilly, Ph.D. 1936, Dissertation: "Self-Symmetric Quadrilaterals In-and-Circumscribed to the Plane Rational Quartic Curve with a Line of Symmetry."
  12. M. Helen Sullivan, Ph.D. 1934, Dissertation: "The Number and Reality of the Non-Self-Symmetric Quadrilaterals In-and-Circumscribed to the Rational Unicuspidal Quartic with a Line of Symmetry."
  13. Mary Domitilla Thuener, Ph.D. 1932, Dissertation: "On the Number and Reality of the Self-Symmetric Quadrilaterals In-and-Circumscribed to the Triangular-Symmetric Rational Quartic."
  14. Mary Felice Vaudreuil, Ph.D. 1931, Dissertation: "Two Correspondences Determined by the Tangents to a Rational Cuspidal Quartic with a Line of Symmetry."

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. News: Now American Citizen: Prof. Aubrey Edward Landry Receives Final Papers . The Evening Star . 6 October 1913 . Washington, DC . 7.
  2. Book: Lamphier . Peg A. . Welch . Rosanne . Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection, Volume 1 . 2017 . ABC-CLIO . Santa Barbara, California . 9781610696036 . 30 .
  3. https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=8170 Aubrey Edward Landry
  4. Book: Green . LaDuke . Pioneering Women in American Mathematics . 52.
  5. Book: Green . LaDuke . Pioneering Women in American Mathematics . 52.
  6. Book: Jensen-Vallin . Jacqueline A. . Beery . Janet L. . Mast . Maura B. . Greenwald . Sarah J. . Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America . 2017 . Springer International Publishing . New York . 9783319666945 . 44, 98–99 .
  7. Web site: Aubrey Edward Landry . Mathematics Genealogy Project . North Dakota State University.
  8. SETU launches a new funded PhD in STEM to celebrate Wexford’s Maggie Gough, the first Irish woman to receive a doctorate in mathematicsSETU launches a new funded PhD in STEM to celebrate Wexford’s Maggie Gough, the first Irish woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics South East Technological University, MARCH 6, 2023
  9. https://mathematics.catholic.edu/student-experience/undergraduate-awards/haynes-award/index.html Euphemia Lofton Haynes Award
  10. Book: Green . LaDuke . Pioneering Women in American Mathematics . 52.

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