Elizabeth Williams (educationist)
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Elizabeth Williams CBE (née Larby, formerly Emily May; 29 January 1895 – 29 March 1986) was a British mathematician and educationist.[1][2]
Life
[edit]Williams was born on 29 January 1895 in Pimlico, London. She studied in Chelsea and Forest Gate during her childhood, and at the age of 16 began attending Bedford College, University of London for a college degree.[1][2] At Bedford, one of her mentors was Alfred North Whitehead. She became a grammar school teacher, but had to stop teaching when she became married in 1922. Because of this situation, she founded her own school in North London with her husband, and then in 1930 (with the assistance of Percy Nunn, who had been a former tutor) she took a position in education at King's College London.[2]
She became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1958, and president of the Mathematical Association for 1965–1966.[2]
Works
[edit]- Oxford Junior Mathematics: Teacher's, Book 5 (1966)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Howson, Geoffrey (2004). "Williams, Elizabeth (1895–1986)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54074. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b c d Howson, Geoffrey (December 1986). "Obituary: Elizabeth M. Williams". The Mathematical Gazette. 70 (454): 307–309. doi:10.1017/S0025557200139762. JSTOR 3616201.
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- 20th-century British mathematicians
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- 20th-century British women mathematicians
- Mathematics education in the United Kingdom