Grace Andrews (May 30, 1869 – July 27, 1951) was an American mathematician. She, along with

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, was one of only two women listed in the first edition of '' American Men of Science'', which appeared in 1906.

Education

Andrews was one of five children of Edward Gayer Andrews, a Methodist Episcopal bishop and school administrator; she was born in

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, and moved frequently as a child, including stays in Ohio, Iowa, Washington DC, and Europe. She was a student at

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, and obtained her undergraduate degree from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficia ...

in 1890, taking a five-year program at Wellesley that also included music. She went to

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for graduate study, earned an A.M. in 1899, and completed a Ph.D. in 1901. Her dissertation was ''The Primitive Double Minimal Surface of the Seventh Class and its Conjugate''.

Career

She worked as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics for

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from 1900 to 1902. She then served as accountant to the Treasurer for

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from 1903 to 1926, working from her home in Brooklyn. She was also an executive in various capacities for the New York branch of the

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