Leona May Peirce

Leona May Peirce
Born(1863-08-04)August 4, 1863
Norway, Maine
DiedSeptember 24, 1954(1954-09-24) (aged 91)
Springfield, Massachusetts
Alma materSmith College
Yale University
OccupationsMathematician, educator

Leona May Peirce (August 4, 1863 – September 24, 1954) was an American mathematician who was denied her doctorate at Cornell, but persevered to finish her PhD at Yale in 1899. She was one of the few women to earn a doctorate in the United States in mathematics before World War II.

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