List of African-American mathematicians
First men and women
These are the first 12 known PhDs by African-American men and women in mathematics, in alphabetical order for years with multiple doctorate holders, with women first.

List of African-American mathematicians

Section Title: First men and women
Table Section Text: These are the first 12 known PhDs by African-American men and women in mathematics, in alphabetical order for years with multiple doctorate holders, with women first.

Year	Gender	Photo	Name	Awarded Byron	Dissertation title	Ref.

1925	(M)	Portrait of Elbert Cox	Elbert Frank Cox	Cornell University	The polynomial solutions of the difference equation af(x+1) + bf(x) = [Phi](x)

1928	(M)	External	Dudley Weldon Woodard	University of Pennsylvania	On two-dimensional analysis situs with special reference to the Jordan Curve Theorem

1933	(M)	External	William Schieffelin Claytor	University of Pennsylvania	Topological immersion of peanian continua in a spherical surface

1934	(M)	External	Walter Richard Talbot	University of Pittsburgh	Fundamental regions in S6 for the simple quaternary G60, type I

1938	(M)	External	Reubin Roosevelt McDaniel	Cornell University	Approximation to algebraic numbers by means of periodic sequences of transformations on quadratic forms

1938	(M)	External	Joseph Alphonso Pierce	University of Michigan	A study of universe n finite populations with application to moment-function adjustments for grouped data

1941	(M)	Portrait of David Blackwell	David Harold Blackwell	University of Illinois	Some properties of Markoff chains

1942	(M)	Robert Coleman	Columbia University	The development of informal geometry

1942	(M)	Portrait of J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr	Jesse Ernest Wilkins	University of Chicago	Multiple integral problems in parametric form in the calculus of variations

1943	(F)	Portrait of Euphemia Lofton Haynes	M. Euphemia Lofton Haynes	Catholic University of America	Determination of sets of independent conditions characterizing certain special cases of symmetric correspondences

1944	(M)	External	Joseph James Dennis	Northwestern University	Some points in the theory of positive definite J-fractions

1944	(M)	External	Wade Ellis	University of Michigan	On relations satisfied by linear operators on a three dimensional linear vector space

1944	(M)	External	Clarence F. Stephens	University of Michigan	Nonlinear difference equations analytic in a parameter

1949	(F)	Evelyn Boyd Granville	Yale University	On laguerre series in the complex domain

1950	(F)	Marjorie Lee Browne	University of Michigan	Studies of oneparameter subgroups of certain topological and matrix groups

1961	(F)	External	Georgia Caldwell Smith	University of Pittsburgh	Some results on the anticenter of a group

1962	(F)	External	Gloria Conyers Hewitt	University of Washington	Direct and inverse limits of abstract algebras

1964	(F)	Mary Rodriguez Embry-Wardrop	University of North Carolina	Subspaces associated with contractions in Hilbert space

1965	(F)	Portrait of Thyrsa Frazier Svager	Thyrsa Frazier Svager	Ohio State University	On the product of absolutely continuous transformations of measure spaces

1966	(F)	Portrait of Vivienne Malone-Mayes	Vivienne Malone-Mayes	University of Texas at Austin	A structure problem in asymptotic analysis

1966	(F)	External	Shirley Mathis McBay	University of Georgia	The homology theory of metabelian lie algebras

1966	(F)	External	Eleanor Green Dawley Jones	Syracuse University	Abelian groups and their endomorphism rings and the quasi-endomorphism of torsion free abelian groups

1967	(F)	Portrait of Christine Darden	Geraldine Claudette Darden	Syracuse University	On direct sums of cyclic groups

1967	(F)	External	Annie Marie Watkins Garraway	University of California, Berkeley	Structure of some cocycles in analysis

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1925: Elbert Frank Cox is the first African-American awarded a doctoral degree in mathematics from Cornell University.

final_sentence: 1925: Elbert Frank Cox is the first African-American awarded a doctoral degree in mathematics from Cornell University.