Grace Bates

Grace Elizabeth Bates was an American mathematician and one of few women in the United States to be granted a Ph.D. in mathematics in the 1940s. She became an emeritus professor at Mount Holyoke College. Bates specialized in algebra and probability theory, and she co-authored two textbooks: The Real Number System and Modern Algebra, Second Course. Throughout her own education, Bates overcame obstructions to her pursuit of knowledge, opening the way for future women learners. ^{Grace Bates, American mathematician and academic (d. 1996)}

13 August 1914

Born on the same birth day (13 August): Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah • DeMarcus Cousins • Giovanni Agnelli • Janet Yellen • José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz • Lucas Moura • Moses Mbye • Niko Kranjčar • Rasmus Bartholin • Shoaib Akhtar • Steve Higgins • Thomas Pogge

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