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Dorothy Bernstein

died 36 years ago

5 February 1988

Dorothy Bernstein was awarded a Ph.D. in 1939 and had an excellent career overcoming prejudice against her as a woman and as a Jew. She became the first woman president of the Mathematical Association of America.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bernstein_Dorothy/