Evelyn Boyd Granville Research Paper
Evelyn Boyd Granville
Evelyn Boyd Granville, a mathematician, teacher, and scientist, she was born on January 5, 1924 in Washington, D.C. She attended a then-segregated Dunbar High School, and was encouraged in the subject by two of her mathemetics teachers. Granville attended Smith College on a partial scholarship. In 1945, she graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She worked with Einar Hille, her Ph.D. faculty adviser at Yale University, in functional analysis.
Granville received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale in 1949, the same year Marjorie Lee Browne received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan. They were the first Black women to receive doctorates in mathematics in the United States. From there, Granville spent a year researching at the New …show more content…
They were married in 1960, and made their home in Los Angeles, but the marriage ended in divorce. In Los Angeles, Granville had taken a job at the Computation and Data Reduction Center of the U.S. Space Technology Laboratories, studying rocket trajectories and methods of orbit computation.
In 1962, she became a research specialist at the North American Aviation Space and Information Systems Division, working on celestial mechanics, trajectory and orbit computation, numerical analysis, and digital computer techniques for the Apollo program. The following year she returned to IBM as a senior mathematician. In 1967, Granville began teaching at California State University in Los Angeles. But she also began working to improve mathematics education at all levels. She taught an elementary school supplemental mathematics program in 1968 and 1969 through the State of California Miller Mathematics Improvement Program. The following year she directed a mathematics enrichment program that provided after-school classes for kindergarteners through fifth grade students, and she taught grades two through
Evelyn Boyd Granville, a mathematician, teacher, and scientist, she was born on January 5, 1924 in Washington, D.C. She attended a then-segregated Dunbar High School, and was encouraged in the subject by two of her mathemetics teachers. Granville attended Smith College on a partial scholarship. In 1945, she graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She worked with Einar Hille, her Ph.D. faculty adviser at Yale University, in functional analysis.
Granville received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale in 1949, the same year Marjorie Lee Browne received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan. They were the first Black women to receive doctorates in mathematics in the United States. From there, Granville spent a year researching at the New …show more content…
They were married in 1960, and made their home in Los Angeles, but the marriage ended in divorce. In Los Angeles, Granville had taken a job at the Computation and Data Reduction Center of the U.S. Space Technology Laboratories, studying rocket trajectories and methods of orbit computation.
In 1962, she became a research specialist at the North American Aviation Space and Information Systems Division, working on celestial mechanics, trajectory and orbit computation, numerical analysis, and digital computer techniques for the Apollo program. The following year she returned to IBM as a senior mathematician. In 1967, Granville began teaching at California State University in Los Angeles. But she also began working to improve mathematics education at all levels. She taught an elementary school supplemental mathematics program in 1968 and 1969 through the State of California Miller Mathematics Improvement Program. The following year she directed a mathematics enrichment program that provided after-school classes for kindergarteners through fifth grade students, and she taught grades two through