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Biography
Gloria Olive (1923–2006) was a New Zealand academic mathematician.
Academic career
Gloria Olive began her mathematics career in the United States. She graduated with a BA from Brooklyn College in 1944 followed by an MA from the University of Wisconsin in 1946 and a PhD from the University of Oregon in 1950, with the dissertation Generalised Powers. She was one of a small group of approximately 7 women who established the precursor group to the inaugural American Women in Mathematics Society. In 1972 she took up a teaching position at the University of Otago. She became Senior Lecturer in Mathematics. She retired in December 1988 and died in Dunedin in 2006.
Selected works
Mathematics for Liberal Arts Students
Various peer-reviewed articles on combinatorics and analysis in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications