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Mathematicians

Mathematicians. Agnes Baxter Laurence Baxter. By Calvin. Agnes Baxter.

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Mathematicians

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  1. Mathematicians Agnes Baxter Laurence Baxter By Calvin

  2. Agnes Baxter Agnes Baxter, the mathematician was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was a student at Dalhousie University from 1887 to 1892. In 1891 she entered to BA degree with the first class honors in Math, and is the first woman to get a distinction. She is also the winner of the “Sir William Young” Gold Medal! 1

  3. In 1892, she received an MA degree in Mathematics, also from the Dalhousie. From Dalhousie, She went to a University called Cornell University where she graduate in mathematics and won a fellowship, and is the second Canadian woman awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1895. 2 In 1896 Baxter married A. Ross Hill, also a graduate of Dalhousie with also an 1895 Ph.D. in Philosophy from Cornell University. In 1908 Ross Hill became president of the “University of Missouri”. Unluckily and unfortunately, she was ill for many years and passed away at the age of 47. 3

  4. Bibliography • “Agnes sime Baxter” 1 October 2011 • <http://www.gapsystem.org/~history/Biographies/Baxter.html> • 2. “Agnes Baxter” agnesscottcolledge 1 October 2011 • <http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/baxter.htm> • 3. “Agnes Baxter” Agnes Baxter reading program 1 October 2011 • <http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~dilcher/baxter.html>

  5. Laurence Baxter LauranceBaxter, a citizen of Great Britain earned a B.Sc. degree with First Class Honors again in 1975 and his Ph.D. degree in 1980 from “the University of London”. In 1981, he joins the faculty at Stony Brook as an assistant of a professor and became associate professor of Mathematics and statistics in 1985. While he is at Stony Brook, he was known as an awesome lecture and taught six Ph.D. students who now are employed in industry and college.

  6. Laurence’s contributions to operations research are well known in the area/subject of applied probability and reliability theory which has over 50 publications. He also did extensive consulting in this area at places such as AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is an editor of the Applied Probability Newsletter and Associate Editor for the Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Journal of Mathematical Analysis & Applications, Naval Research Logistics and the International Journal of Operations and a Quantitative Management. Laurence is a high class Statistical society, the American Statistical Society and the organization for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Laurence was then died after a long period of illness on November 8, 1996 at the age of 42.4

  7. Bibliography • 4. “Lawrence Baxter” The Laurence Baxter Memorial Lectures 1 October 2011 • <http://www.cap.columbia.edu/CAP-baxter-memorial.html>

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