Talk:List of African-American mathematicians

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Joseph Dennis Mis-linked

The entry for Joseph Dennis links to a cricket play from the mid=1700s: Joseph Dennis I'm going to create a new entry for Joseph Dennis_(mathematician) and link to that instead. I'll try to figure out the current conventions regarding disambiguation pages and such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JimD (talk • contribs) 09:32, 11 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Distressingly short list

By reading this page, one could reasonably draw the conclusion that there are precisely three living African-American mathematicians, none under 80 years of age.

This is quite false (there are, arguably, too few African-American mathematicians, but there are lots more than three!). I wish to question the merits of a page which serves to give an untruthfully discouraging impression of the current state of affairs: who benefits? Plclark 03:16, 29 September 2007 (UTC)Plclark[reply]

I started the article because someone else requested it. Presumably it benefits curious people, and it fulfills a role that isn't really well suited for a category. There is a danger that readers will get the wrong impression, which can be mitigated by expanding the list. Melchoir (talk) 08:53, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

75.74.52.184

the world is a loser and none of this can help —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.74.52.184 (talk) 18:10, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

im like really bored has anybody noticed that there are no female african american mathematicians and that is very wrong they are giving the men all the credit how dare they most women are at home doing work like cleaning or cooking that is not right the women should have enducation and be anle to be recognized —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.74.52.184 (talk) 18:13, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Er... there are women on the list. Melchoir (talk) 00:00, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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What is this article?

Is it a list, or is it a regular article? I think it should be split into an article describing the history of African-Americans in mathematics and a list of African-American mathematicians. 203.214.8.5 (talk) 05:57, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Links should be to new website on Mathematicians of African Diaspora

I saw some links to photos/articles on Scott Williams original website http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/index.html. Last year, this website was updated. The new website is https://www.mathad.com/home. There are many good photos on this website that can be linked to. Mvitulli (talk) 17:16, 24 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hilda Bastian

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I saw this article in Vox too, but cant' see that any of the photos on this article were contributed by Hildabast. Mvitulli (talk) 00:33, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Addition of 3 people

Should the following 3 people be added to the list of people with PhDs/Doctorates?

 Etta Zuber Falconer https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Etta_Zuber_Falconer

Ph.D.: University of Denver (1969)
Expertise: Algebraic topology and the history of mathematics.

 Abdulalim A. Shabazz https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Abdulalim_A._Shabazz

Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania (1961)
Expertise: Differential equations and mathematical physics.

 Nathaniel Dean https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Nathaniel_Dean_(mathematician)

Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania (1981)
Expertise: Algebraic geometry and number theory.

people with doctorates

Does anyone object /agree with the following doctorate holders being added to the list/

 Fern Hunt Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified  Mary Deconge https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Mary_Deconge

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified  Scott W. Williams https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Scott_W._Williams

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified  Joseph Alphonso Pierce https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Joseph_Alphonso_Pierce

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: University of Michigan Dissertation Title: A study of universe n finite populations with application to moment-function adjustments for grouped data  Evelyn Boyd Granville https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Evelyn_Boyd_Granville

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Yale University Dissertation Title: On laguerre series in the complex domain  Joseph Dennis https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Joseph_Dennis_(mathematician)

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Northwestern University Dissertation Title: Some points in the theory of positive definite J-fractions  William McWorter https://hiddenfigures.osu.edu/william-mcworter

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics and PhD Institution: Ohio State University Dissertation Title: Phi algebras  Albert Turner Bharucha-Reid https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Albert_Turner_Bharucha-Reid

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified  Georgia Caldwell Smith https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Georgia_Caldwell_Smith

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: University of Pittsburgh Dissertation Title: Some results on the anticenter of a group  Kelly Miller https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Kelly_Miller_(scientist)

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified  John Taylor King https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/king-john-q-taylor-sr-1921-2011/

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: University of Texas Dissertation Title: A statistical analysis of the economic aspects of nineteen Protestant church-related colleges in Texas  Tepper L. Gill https://cea.howard.edu/articles/professor-tepper-gill-receives-2018-rm-santilli-foundation-scientific-award

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics & PhD Institution: Wayne State University Dissertation Title: Tensor products of contraction semigroups on Hilbert spaces  Isom Herron https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isom-Herron

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified  Lillian K. Bradley https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Lillian_K._Bradley

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified  Chester Seabury https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Chester_Seabury

https://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/seabury_chester.html

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Stanford University Dissertation Title: Some extension theorems for regular maps of Stein manifolds  Ralph Turner https://ralphwturner.org

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified  Chelsea Walton https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Chelsea_Walton

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified  Carla Cotwright-Williams https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Carla_Cotwright-Williams

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified  Sylvia Bozeman https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Sylvia_Bozeman

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified  Melba Roy Mouton https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Melba_Roy_Mouton

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified  Joella Gipson https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Joella_Gipson

Degree: Doctorate in Mathematics Institution: Not specified

RFAvaria (talk) 11:50, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Page Summary

Does anyone have an opinion on the page summary of each person? I noticed on other pages the last or near to last paragraph has a summary that explains how the person's work contributed to society in some way. Should that be included on these pages?

If so should we agree on a format to ensure that there is come consistency for the reader?? Maybe something like

(Name) (ADJECTIVE like pivotal/monumental/innovative) work helped contribute to the field of (AREA OF WORK science, math, technology etc) by helping to advance developments in what we now use today like ___________

This is just a rough idea id love to hear other peoples perspective on how best to streamline for consistency .. thanks !! RFAvaria (talk) 12:45, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We would need sourcing for particular developments, which is not always easy to come by. Are you talking about the list towards the bottom of the article? The list article here focuses on where people got their PhD. It might be somewhat sensible to replace that with the broad area that they work in, at least in cases where a person became a researcher. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 12:57, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good morning Russ, thanks for the reply... I was actually just thinking on the actual person's page just at the bottom. as we ae sorting and trying to add names that might be missing I was just wondering if something that might help schoolchildren say doing a report ... like a sentence that ties it together. Example like on this page. Louis W. Roberts#:~:text=Louis Wright Roberts (September 1,at NASA's Electronics Research Center. Maybe something that said Dr. Wrights contributions to the field of microwave technology made innovations we enjoy today like the microwave possible.

Something that help the information become tangible in the mind of the reader. Thanks again for replying back so quickly that was nice of you RFAvaria (talk) 13:14, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. The general form of a biography is given by our Manual of Style. The rules are a little spread out, but MOS:BIO is a place to start. If I understand what you're suggesting, I don't think it'd be a great fit in a biographical article. In addition, it'd be hard to find sourcing, and perhaps a little hard to avoid hyperbole. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 21:22, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

k, good points, thanks RFAvaria (talk) 21:53, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]