Mary Lucy timeline

By Ethan Bright

  • Birth date

  • In 1919, Cartwright became one of five women studying mathematics at Oxford University

  • She graduated from Oxford with a first-class degree

  • In 1930 she was awarded her D.Phil and her thesis

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    Appointed a Lecturer in Mathematics

    By 1935, she had been appointed a Lecturer in Mathematics at Cambridge. She would hold this post until 1959

  • Death date

    After years of teaching abroad, Cartwright returned to Cambridge, where she was one of the editors of The Collected Papers of G. H. Hardy. She later died there in 1998