Grace Bates

Grace Elizabeth Bates
BornAugust 13, 1914
DiedNovember 19, 1996 (aged 82)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMount Holyoke College
Known forBates distribution
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
InstitutionsMount Holyoke College
Doctoral advisorReinhold Baer

Grace Elizabeth Bates (13 August 1914 – 19 November 1996) was an American mathematician and one of few women in the United States to be granted a Ph.D. in mathematics in the 1940s. She became an emeritus professor at Mount Holyoke College. Bates specialized in algebra and probability theory, and she co-authored two textbooks: The Real Number System and Modern Algebra, Second Course. Throughout her own education, Bates overcame obstructions to her pursuit of knowledge, opening the way for future women learners.

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