Mathematician:Lorraine Lois Foster

Mathematician

American mathematician working in number theory and the theory of mathematical symmetry.

First woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from California Institute of Technology.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 25 December 1938, Culver City, California
• 1960: Received B.A. from Occidental College
• 1964: Received Ph.D. in mathematics from California Institute of Technology

Publications

• Sep. 1982: E2872 (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 89, no. 7: pp. 499 – 500) (with Gabriel Robins)  www.jstor.org/stable/2321396

• May 1991: Solution to E3361 (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 98, no. 5: p. 443)  www.jstor.org/stable/2323869

Also known as

Born Lorraine Lois Turnbull.