THE COMPARISON OF JESSIE MACWILLIAMS

AND LEONARD NELSON

BY: SUKI TSOI Y8PEACE

~INTRODUCTION~1) comparing two famous mathematicians 2) Jessie MacWilliams and Leonard Nelson3) Jessie MacWilliams - England female

mathematician4) and Leonard Nelson - male German

Philosopher5) both successful and intelligent mathematicians6) both had great contribution to mathematics

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JESSIE MACWILLIAMS1) born in 1917 in England2) received her BA in 1938 and her MA the following

year - both from Cambridge University3) 1939, received traveling scholarship from

Cambridge - went to Johns Hopkins University4) 1940, went to Harvard University - study for a year5) married in 1941, left her mathematical work for

some years - raise her three children (one daughter and two sons)

JESSIE MACWILLIAMS1) 1955 - became programmer - learned coding theory 2) Although did major research at Bell Labs3) turned down - promotion for mathematics research

position 4) she received a Ph.D5) completed her PhD after returning to Harvard - one

more year (1961-1962). 6) MacWilliams retired from Bell Labs in January 1983

and died in May 1990

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LEONARD NELSON1) In contrast Leonard Nelson - born in July 11, 1882

in Berlin.

2) part of the Neo-Friesian School

3) friend of another famous mathematician David Hilbert

4) Georg August University of Gottingen

5) advised by Julius Bauman

6) critical of Hengel in his work

7) progress and Regress in Philosophy

8) died young from pneumonia in October 29, 1927

SIMILARITIES1) Leonard Nelson and Jessie MacWilliams had

similarities2) both worked really hard on mathematics3) famous of one main type of mathematics4) Leonard Nelson, it was philosophy. 5) Jessie MacWilliams, it was for Ph.D. 6) both had huge contribution in mathematics7) little similarities between the two different

mathematicians8) both a success in mathematics.

BIBLIOGRAPHY• MacWilliams F. Jessie, Profiles of woman in Mathematics. 2005

http://www.awm-math.org/noetherbrochure/MacWilliams80.html• MacWilliams Jessie, Albert Einstein, September 30th.2011

http://medbib.com/Jessie_MacWilliams• Maths, 7C, October 3rd,2011 http://wjhs7c.pbworks.com/w/page/5144851/7C%20Math• Math, Wilson primary 3rd grade math http://www.wilson3rdgrade.zoomshare.com/2.html• Maths, Friday Octorber 24, 2008

http://ohtongkeong126.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html• Nelson Leonard, Wikipedia, 31 March 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nelson• Nelson Leonard, Mathematicians, September 30th, 2011

http://stuffaboutnames.com/leonard/mathematicians.htm• Nelson Leonard, factbites, September 30th,2011

http://www.factbites.com/topics/Leonard-Nelson• The end October 3rd,2011

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