Anna Mullikin
Anna Margaret Mullikin (March 7, 1893 – August 24, 1975) was a mathematician who was one of the early investigators of point set theory.[1][2] She received her BA from Goucher College in 1915 and went on to attend Penn for doctoral work. She was R. L. Moore's third student, graduating in 1922 with a dissertation entitled Certain Theorems Relating to Plane Connected Point Sets. Her dissertation was published that year in TAMS[3] and subsequently became the catalyst for significant advances in the field.[1] She spent most of her subsequent career as a secondary school mathematics teacher. During 1921-1922 she had taught at Oak Lane Country Day School, which served preschool and elementary aged children.
References
- ^ a b Bartlow, T. L. and Zitarelli, D. E. (2009) Who Was Miss Mullikin?, American Mathematical Monthly 116(2), 99-114.
- ^ Zitarelli, D. E. (2009) Connected Sets and the AMS: 1901-1921, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 56(4), 450-458.
- ^ Mullikin, A. (1922) Certain Theorems Relating to Plane Connected Point Sets, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 24, 144-162.