Anne Lucy Bosworth Focke is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Anne Lucy Bosworth Focke as American mathematician.
Anne Lucy Bosworth Focke was born at Woonsocket in 1868. Her recorded nationality is United States. She studied at University of Chicago and Wellesley College.
The nineteenth century made mathematics rigorous: definitions were tightened, foundations questioned, and whole fields created from scratch.
Her academic posts were held at University of Rhode Island.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from United States matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Anne Lucy Bosworth Focke died in 1907, aged 39. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Rhode Island
