Publications of Sister Helen Sullivan

PhD Dissertation of Sister M. Helen Sullivan. Cover.

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PhD Dissertation of Sister M. Helen Sullivan. Cover.

Geometric Transformations Curriculum.

PhD Dissertation of Sister M. Helen Sullivan. Pages 12 and 13.

Object Details

date made: 1934-1970s

maker: Sullivan, Sister Helen

Description: Sister M. Helen Sullivan donated items to the Smithsonian on the occasion of the August 31, 1981, meeting honoring American women in mathematics. Among these materials were several of her publications.; 1993.3019.06.01. Her doctoral dissertation: The Number and Reality of the Non-Self-Symmetric Quadrilaterals In-and-Circumscribed to the Rational Unicuspidal Quartic with a Line of Symmetry, (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America, 1934).; 1993.3019.06.02. Typewritten and bound text: The Christian Approach to Science: A Philosophic Integration for Science Majors in Liberal Arts Colleges. This text was used in a class Sullivan taught at Loyola University during the summer of 1949.; 1993.3019.06.03. Published book: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, (New York: Vantage Press, Inc., 1952).; 1993.3019.06.04. Spiral-bound copy of her published book An Introduction to the Philosophy of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (1993.3019.06.03) with “Additional Suggested Readings and Bibliography (Revised List – 1960).”; 1993.3019.06.05. Carbon copy of a typescript, “Undergraduate Research in Mathematics.” Sullivan presented this paper at a meeting of the American Benedictine Academy in Canon City, Colorado, August 1961.; 1993.3019.06.06. Carbon copy of a typescript, “Undergraduate Research in Mathematics in Catholic Colleges for Women.” Sullivan presented the paper at a meeting of the American Benedictine Academy in St. Josesph, Minnesota, August 1965.; 1993.3019.06.07. Copy of a typescript with a removable hard cover, “Geometric Transformations.” A unit produced by the College Geometry Project, Minnesota School Mathematics and Science Center, University of Minnesota, under a grant from the National Science Foundation, August 1966.; 1993.3019.06.08. Syllabus for a course, MA 465 Modern Geometry, taught by Sullivan at Mount St. Scholastica College during the first semester of the academic year 1969–70.; 1993.3019.06.09. Copy of an article, “Catholicism in Ireland, As I See It,” The Furrow 22 (Fall 1971): 615-21. This was published in an Irish journal shortly after Sister Helen Sullivan spent a sabbatical year at University College, Galway.
Location: Currently not on view

place made: United States: Kansas, Atchison

web subject: Mathematics
Subject: Women's History

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Mathematics; Women Mathematicians; Science & Mathematics; Religion

Credit Line: Collected for the Museum from Sister Helen Sullivan

Data Source: National Museum of American History

ID Number: 1993.3019.06
nonaccession number: 1993.3019
catalog number: 1993.3019.06

Object Name: documents, group of 9

Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 6.5 cm x 25 cm x 32 cm; 2 9/16 in x 9 27/32 in x 12 19/32 in

Metadata Usage: CC0

GUID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a7-5365-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record ID: nmah_905228