Charlotte Angas Scott Encyclopedia Article

Charlotte Angas Scott

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Charlotte Angas Scott

1858-1931

English mathematician who served as editor of the American Journal of Mathematics and published the noted textbook An Introductory Account of Certain Modern Ideas and Methods in Plane Analytical Geometry (1894). Scott won a scholarship to Girton College, Cambridge University, where she earned a doctorate in algebraic geometry in 1885. News of her accomplishments spread and she was summoned to the United States to become the first head of the mathematics department at the newly established Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Scott was also a member of the Council of the American Mathematical Society, serving in 1905 as its vice president.