Mary L. Boas (1917–2010)
Auteur van Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences
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- Officiële naam
- Boas, Mary Layne
- Geboortedatum
- 1917-03-10
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2010-02-17
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Prosser, Washington, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Opleiding
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Washington - Beroepen
- academic
mathematician
physics professor
textbook writer - Relaties
- Boas Jr., Ralph P. (husband)
Boas, Harold P. (son) - Organisaties
- DePaul University
- Korte biografie
- Mary Layne Boas was born in Prosser, Washington, and grew up on her parents' poultry and fruit farm near Monroe. She earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Washington, after which she went to Duke University in North Carolina to do further graduate work and serve as an instructor in the Department of Mathematics. There she met her future husband, Ralph P. Boas, Jr., a fellow mathematician; they were married in 1941 and had three children. Prof. Boas received a doctoral degree in physics in 1948 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She taught physics at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois for 30 years, retiring in 1987 as professor emerita. After her retirement, she and her husband moved to the Seattle area. She is best known as the author of Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences (1966), an undergraduate textbook that is still used today. In 2005, at the age of 88, Prof. Boas published the third edition of her famous textbook. She established the Mary L. Boas Endowed Scholarship at the University of Washington in 2008 to recognize outstanding academic achievements by female students in physics.
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- 444
- Populariteit
- #55,179
- Waardering
- 4.1
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- ISBNs
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I give four stars because there are places where I did feel additional explanation -or additional worked examples- would be helpful. Like many books, it includes harder problems towards the end of each section: a few more worked examples of this relative complexity would make this a five star book. My two cents, anyway.… (meer)