Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes, circa 1900s, the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathem
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes, circa 1900s, the first African-American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics. Her degree was awarded in 1943 by The Catholic University of America for her dissertation “The Determination of Sets of Independent Conditions Characterizing Certain Special Cases of Symmetric Correspondences”. -- source link
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