Olive clio hazlett biography

October 27, - March 8,

Larry Riddle, Agnes Scott College

Olive Clio Hazlett was born in Cincinnati and grew up in Boston where she attended the public schools.

She received her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in , and a master's degree in and a Ph.D. in , both from the University of Chicago.

Olive clio hazlett biography

Her thesis director for both degrees at Chicago was Leonard Dickson. She was his second female doctoral student after Mildred Sanderson. The title of her Ph.D. degree was "On the Classification and Invariantive Characterization of Nilpotent Algebras." The published version appeared in the American Journal of Mathematics, vol 38 (), pp [Abstract].

During , Hazlett did research on invariants of nilpotent algebras at Harvard as an Alice Freeman Palmer Fellow of Wellesley College.

The next two years were spent at Bryn Mawr before she took an assistant professor position at Mount Holyoke. She was promoted to associate professor in but was dissatisfied by what sh