Anna Pell Wheeler (mathmatician)
...rential equations” in 1904. A second master’s degree from Radeliffe was awarded in 1905 and she remained there to study under Bôcher and Osgood. She was awarded the Alice Freeman Palmer Fellowship from Wellesley College to study for a year at Göttingen where she completed the work for her doctorate at Göttingten University While there Alexander Pell came to Göttingten so that they could marry. After returning to the United States, where her husband was by know Dean of Engineering, she taught courses in the theory of functions and differential equations. In 1908 Anna Pell returned to Göttingen where she completed the work for her doctorate but, after a disagreement with Hilbert, she returned to Chicago, where her husbamd was now on the university staff, without the degree being awarded. At Chicago she became a student of Eliakim Moore and received her Ph.D. in 1909, her thesis Biorthogonal Systems of Functions with Applications to the Theory of Integral Equations being the one written originally at Göttingen. Anna Pell’s husband ,who was 25 years older than her, died in 1920. She became a full professor in 1925. She remarried to Arthur Wheeler, who died in1932. The period from 1920-1935 must have been one with much unhappiness for her since during those years her father, mother, two husbands, and clos...