Vivienne Malone-Mayes
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Vivienne Lucille Malone-Mayes was an American mathematician and professor. Malone-Mayes studied properties of functions, as well as methods of teaching mathematics. She was the fifth African-American
Vivienne Malone Mayes
Evelyn Boyd Granville
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Evelyn Boyd Granville was an American mathematician and computer scientist. She was the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American university; she earned it in 19
Vivienne Malone-Mayes
…where she earned a bachelor's degree (1952) and a master's degree (1954). Vivienne switched from medicine to mathematics after she began studying under Evelyn Boyd Granville and Lee Lorch. Granville was one of the first of five African-American women to earn her Ph.D. in mathematics. After earning her master's, she chaired…
Boyd in 1945