Judith (Judy) Green (born 1943) is an American

logician Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure of arg ...

and

historian of mathematics The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the History of mathematical notation, mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples ...

who studies

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. She is a founding member of the

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

; she has also served as its vice president, and as the vice president of the

American Association of University Professors The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is an organization of professors and other academics in the United States that was founded in 1915 in New York City and is currently headquartered in Washington, D.C. AAUP membership inc ...

Education and career

Green earned her bachelor's degree at

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

. She completed a master's degree at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

, and a Ph.D. at the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD i ...

. Her dissertation, supervised by Carol Karp and finished in 1972, was ''Consistency Properties for Uncountable Finite-Quantifier Languages''. Green was elected an

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Member at Large in 1975 and served for three years until 1977. She belonged to the faculty of

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

before moving to

Marymount University Marymount University is a Private university, private Catholic university with its main campus in Arlington County, Virginia, United States. It was founded as Marymount College in 1950. Marymount offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degre ...

in 1989. After retiring from Marymount in 2007, she became a volunteer at the

National Museum of American History The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center is a historical museum in Washington, D.C. It collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and m ...

Book

With Jeanne LaDuke, she wrote '' Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s'' (

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

and

London Mathematical Society The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's Learned society, learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh ...

, 2009). This was a biographical study of the first women in the U.S. to earn doctorates in mathematics.

Recognition

She is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Judy 1943 births Place of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century American mathematicians Mathematical logicians American women logicians American historians of mathematics Cornell University alumni Yale University alumni University of Maryland, College Park alumni Rutgers University faculty Marymount University faculty Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics 20th-century American women mathematicians 21st-century American women