Anna Mullikin

Anna Margaret Mullikin
BornMarch 7, 1893
Baltimore, Maryland
DiedAugust 24, 1975
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Burial placeMt. Olivet Cemetery
Alma materGoucher College
University of Pennsylvania
OccupationMathematician
Known forMiss Mullikin's Theorem

Anna Margaret Mullikin (1893–1975) was an American mathematician who was one of the early investigators of point set theory. She was one of the few women to earn a PhD in math before World War II.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Bartlow, T. L. and Zitarelli, D. E. (2009) Who Was Miss Mullikin?, American Mathematical Monthly 116(2), 99-114.
  2. ^ Zitarelli, D. E. (2009) Connected Sets and the AMS: 1901-1921, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 56(4), 450-458.
  3. ^ Green, Judy, Jeanne LaDuke: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s. 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5.