Annie Dale Biddle Andrews

Annie Dale Biddle Andrews

Annie Dale Biddle Andrews (born in Hanford, California on December 13, 1885 to Samuel E. Biddle and A. A. Biddle) was the first woman to earn a Ph. D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1911, she wrote her thesis, "Constructive theory of the unicursal plane quartic by synthetic methods", under her maiden name, Annie Dale Biddle;cite web | title = Annie Dale Biddle Andrews | url = http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/andrews.htm | date = May 22, 2007 | publisher = Agnes Scott College| author = Riddle, Larry | accessdate=2007-11-02] it was published by the university in 1912.cite web | url = http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/abstracts/andrews_abstract.htm | title = Annie Biddle Abstract | date = May 4, 2006 | publisher = Agnes Scott College| author = Riddle, Larry |accessdate=2007-11-02] . Her advisors were Derrick Norman Lehmer and Mellen Haskell .cite web |url = http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=32109 | title = Annie Biddle | publisher = North Dakota State University | work = The Mathematics Genealogy Project | accessdate = 2007-11-02] She was a math instructor at the University of Washington from 1911 to 1912, after which she married Wilhelm Samuel Andrews. She worked as a math instructor at the University of California between 1915 and 1932 and published a paper in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society around 1933.

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