Philippa Fawcett, English mathematician and educator (died 1948)

Philippa Fawcett

English mathematician and educator (1868–1948)

Philippa Garrett Fawcett was an English mathematician and educator. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. She taught at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at the normal school in Johannesburg, and she became an administrator for…