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American mathematician and author
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Edna Ernestine Kramer
Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar
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Place of birth
Manhattan
Place of death
Manhattan
Age
82 years
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Manhattan
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Biography
Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar (May 11, 1902 - July 9, 1984), born Edna Ernestine Kramer, was an American mathematician and author of mathematics books.
Kramer was born in Manhattan to Jewish immigrants. She earned her B.A. summa cum laude in mathematics from Hunter College in 1922. While teaching at local high schools, she earned her M.A. in 1925 and Ph.D. in 1930 in mathematics (with a minor in physics) from Columbia University with Edward Kasner as her advisor.
She married the French teacher Benedict Taxier Lassar on July 2, 1935.
Kramer died at the age of 82 in Manhattan of Parkinson's disease.
Works
- The Main Stream of Mathematics[sic] (1951)
- The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics (1970)
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