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MISS MARY LUCY CARTWRIGHT, whose appointment as Mistress of Girton has been announced, is recognized as one of the leading pure mathematicians in Great Britain A pupil of G. H. Hardy at Oxford, she gained the degree of D.Phil. at that University, but inigrated to Cambridge in 1930, on her election to a fellowship at Girton. Her early work was on Abel summability and Dirichlet series. This was followed by a long series of papers on integral functions and functions regular in angle. Influenced possibly by J. E. Littlewood, she then turned her attention to inequalities for schlicht and related functions, and in 1935 made what is perhaps her most striking discovery, the inequality
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Girton College, Cambridge : Dr. Mary Cartwright, F.R.S. Nature 163, 125 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163125b0
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