Evelyn Boyd Granville, American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (died 2023)

Evelyn Boyd Granville was an American mathematician and computer scientist. She was the second African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from an American university; she earned it in 1949 from Yale University. She graduated from Smith College in 1945. She performed pioneering work in the field of computing.

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