Edna Kramer

Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar
BornMay 11, 1902
Manhattan, New York, US
DiedJuly 9, 1984
Manhattan, New York, US

Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar (May 11, 1902 – July 9, 1984), born Edna Ernestine Kramer, was an American mathematician and author of mathematics books.

Kramer was born in Manhattan to Jewish immigrants.[1] She earned her B.A. summa cum laude in mathematics from Hunter College in 1922.[2] While teaching at local high schools, she earned her M.A. in 1925 and Ph.D. in 1930 in mathematics (with a minor in physics) from Columbia University with Edward Kasner as her advisor.

She wrote The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics, A First Course in Educational Statistics, Mathematics Takes Wings: An Aviation Supplement to Secondary Mathematics, and The Main Stream of Mathematics.[3]

Kramer married the French teacher Benedict Taxier Lassar on July 2, 1935. Kramer-Lassar died at the age of 82 in Manhattan of Parkinson's disease.[3]

  1. ^ "Edna Kramer Lassar". Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Agnes Scott College. May 1997.
  2. ^ "The evening world. (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, June 15, 1922, Wall Street Final Edition, Image 26". The Evening World. 1922-06-15. p. 26. ISSN 1941-0654. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  3. ^ a b "Dr. Edna Kramer-Lassar, 82, Ex-Professor of Mathematics". The New York Times. July 25, 1984. p. D23. Retrieved 2022-04-09.