Judy Green (mathematician)


Judith Green is an American logician and historian of mathematics who studies women in mathematics. She is a founding member of the Association for Women in Mathematics; she has also served as its vice president, and as the vice president of the American Association of University Professors.

Education and career

Green earned her bachelor's degree at Cornell University.
She completed a master's degree at Yale University,
and a Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Her dissertation, supervised by Carol Karp and finished in 1972, was
Consistency Properties for Uncountable Finite-Quantifier Languages.
She belonged to the faculty of Rutgers University before moving to Marymount University in 1989. After retiring from Marymount in 2007, she became a volunteer at the National Museum of American History.

Book

With Jeanne LaDuke, she wrote Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s. This was a biographical study of the first women in the U.S. to earn doctorates in mathematics.

Recognition

She is part of the 2019 class of fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics.