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Barbara Trader Faires (born 1943) was a mathematics professor, department chair, and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Westminster College in Pennsylvania and served for 8 years as Secretary of the Mathematical Association of America.She is now retired and living in Pulaski Township, Pennsylvania.
Faires earned her undergraduate degree at East Carolina University, double-majoring in mathematics and business. She earned her doctorate at Kent State University in 1974; her dissertation title was "On Grothendieck Spaces and Vector Measures" and completed under the supervision of Joseph Diestel.Faires extended her studies into computer science during a sabbatical leave at Carnegie Mellon University where she also had a visiting position. Another visiting position took her to Westminster College in Oxford, UK.
She was married to mathematician J. Douglas Faires (1941-2012) who taught at nearby Youngstown University in Youngstown, Ohio.Together they authored several calculus textbooks.
Selected publications
- Faires, Barbara (1974). "On Vitali–Hahn–Saks Type Theorems" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 80 (4): 670–74. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1974-13541-x.
- Faires, Barbara. (1978) "Varieties and Vector Measures".Mathematische Nachrichten,85 (1), https://doi.org/10.1002/mana.19780850122.