Was honored with a blue plaque placed at her former home on 38 Sherlock Close in Cambridge
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Mary Cartwright
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright was a British mathematician. She was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory. Along with J. E. Littlewood, Cartwright saw many solutions to a problem which would later be seen as an example of the butterfly effect.
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science · British mathematician (1900–1998) · mathematician · also Mary Cartwright, Mary Lucy Cartwright, M.L. Cartwright, Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright, Cartwright
Born 17 December 1900 · Died 3 April 1998 · Q452158
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1998· 1 entry
Died 1998-04-03.
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1969· 2 entries
Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1969).
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Was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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1968· 2 entries
Won De Morgan Medal (1968).
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Cartwright became the first woman to receive the De Morgan Medal, the highest award of the London Mathematical Society, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (HonFRSE)
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1964· 1 entry
Won Sylvester Medal (1964).
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1961· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1961–1963).
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1951· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1951–1951).
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1949· 1 entry
Career landmark: principal (1949–1968).
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1948· 1 entry
And a Reader in the Theory of Functions in Cambridge in 1959 until 1968
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1947· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1947).
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Was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society; although she was not the first woman to be elected to that Society, she was the first female mathematician
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1945· 1 entry
Cartwright simplified Hermite's elementary proof of the irrationality of π
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1938· 1 entry
Began work on a new project which had a major impact on the direction of her research
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1936· 1 entry
Cartwright became director of studies in mathematics at Girton College
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1930· 2 entries
Cartwright was awarded a Yarrow Research Fellowship and went to Girton College, Cambridge to continue working on the topic of her doctoral thesis
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Studied at University of Oxford (1927–1930).
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1923· 1 entry
Studied at St Hugh's College (1919–1923).
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1919· 1 entry
Studied at Godolphin School (1916–1919).
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-12-17.
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