Transcript Mathematicians

Mathematicians
Agnes Baxter
Laurence Baxter
By Calvin
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
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
1. “Agnes sime Baxter” 1 October 2011
<http://www.gapsystem.org/~history/Biographies/Baxter.html>
2. “Agnes Baxter” agnes scott colledge 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>
Laurance Baxter, 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.
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
4. “Lawrence Baxter” The Laurence Baxter Memorial
Lectures 1 October 2011
<http://www.cap.columbia.edu/CAP-baxtermemorial.html>