Grace Murray Hopper

This page is dedicated to the history of Grace Murray Hopper, who was an accomplished mathematician before becoming an early computer pioneer.
  • Grace Murray Hopper, New Types of Irreducibility Criteria, Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, May 1934. Advisor: Øystein Ore.
    PDF scan from Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
  • Grace M. Hopper and Øystein Ore, New Types of Irreducibility Criteria, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, volume 40, 1934, issue number 3, abstract number 126, p. 216.
    PDF from the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.
  • A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, by the staff of Computation Laboratory, Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University, volume 1, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1946.
    PDF from the Internet Archive digital library.
Mathematical Scholarship on Hopper
  • Asher Auel, The Mathematics of Grace Murray Hopper, Notice of the American Mathematical Society 66, March 2019, number 3, pp. 330-340.
    PDF from the Notices of the AMS.
  • Judy Green and Jeanne LaDuke, Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s, History of Mathematics, volume 34, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2008.
    PDF of Supplementary Materials from the AMS.
  • Judy Green and Jeanne LaDuke, Letter to the Editor, Isis 102 (2011), number 1, pp. 136–137.
    PDF from Isis Journal, University of Chicago Press.