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Margaret Meyer : ウィキペディア英語版 | Margaret Meyer
Margaret Theodora Meyer (September 1862 – 27 January 1924), also known as Maud Meyer was a British mathematician. She was one of the first directors of studies in mathematics, and one of the earliest members of the London Mathematical Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=London Mathematical Society )〕 In 1916, she was the first woman to be elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.〔 ==Biography== Meyer was born in Ulster to a Presbyterian minister, Theodore Jonah Meyer, and his wife Jane Ann. She had an older brother, Sir William Stevenson Meyer, who served as first high commissioner for India. Meyer spent time in Italy before attending the North London Collegiate School for Girls, then enrolled at Girton College, Cambridge in 1879 and attained an MA from Trinity College in Dublin. In 1888 Meyer became a resident lecturer in mathematics at Girton College, where she remained for 30 years.〔 During World War I, Meyer undertook calculational work for the British War Office in her spare time. In 1918 she resigned from work at the college and worked for the British Air Ministry, which related to aircraft design and construction.〔 Meyer had an interest in astronomy, as part of her degree concerned mathematical astronomy. She carried out much unpublished work on the subject. In 1916, she was the first woman to be elected to the Royal Astronomical Society.〔
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