Virginia Ragsdale

Virginia Ragsdale
Virginia Ragsdale
Born(1870-12-13)December 13, 1870
Jamestown, North Carolina, US
DiedJune 4, 1945(1945-06-04) (aged 74)
Greensboro, North Carolina, US
Alma materGuilford College
Bryn Mawr College
Known forRagsdale conjecture
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsWoman's College in Greensboro
Thesis On the Arrangement of the Real Branches of Plane Algebraic Curves  (1904)
Doctoral advisor
Charlotte Scott

Virginia Ragsdale (December 13, 1870 – June 4, 1945) was a teacher and mathematician specializing in algebraic curves. She is most known as the creator of the Ragsdale conjecture.

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