Publications of Sister Helen Sullivan
date: label: date made
content: 1934-1970s
name: label: maker
content: Sullivan, Sister Helen
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content: Sister M. Helen Sullivan donated items to the Smithsonian on the occasion of the August 31, 1981, meeting honoring American women in mathematics. Among these materials were several of her publications.
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content: 1993.3019.06.01. Her doctoral dissertation: <I>The Number and Reality of the Non-Self-Symmetric Quadrilaterals In-and-Circumscribed to the Rational Unicuspidal Quartic with a Line of Symmetry</I>, (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America, 1934).
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content: 1993.3019.06.02. Typewritten and bound text: <I>The Christian Approach to Science: A Philosophic Integration for Science Majors in Liberal Arts Colleges</I>. This text was used in a class Sullivan taught at Loyola University during the summer of 1949.
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content: 1993.3019.06.03. Published book: <I>An Introduction to the Philosophy of Natural and Mathematical Sciences</I>, (New York: Vantage Press, Inc., 1952).
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content: 1993.3019.06.04. Spiral-bound copy of her published book <I>An Introduction to the Philosophy of Natural and Mathematical Sciences</I> (1993.3019.06.03) with “Additional Suggested Readings and Bibliography (Revised List – 1960).”
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content: 1993.3019.06.05. Carbon copy of a typescript, “Undergraduate Research in Mathematics.” Sullivan presented this paper at a meeting of the American Benedictine Academy in Canon City, Colorado, August 1961.
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content: 1993.3019.06.06. Carbon copy of a typescript, “Undergraduate Research in Mathematics in Catholic Colleges for Women.” Sullivan presented the paper at a meeting of the American Benedictine Academy in St. Josesph, Minnesota, August 1965.
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content: 1993.3019.06.07. Copy of a typescript with a removable hard cover, “Geometric Transformations.” A unit produced by the College Geometry Project, Minnesota School Mathematics and Science Center, University of Minnesota, under a grant from the National Science Foundation, August 1966.
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content: 1993.3019.06.08. Syllabus for a course, MA 465 Modern Geometry, taught by Sullivan at Mount St. Scholastica College during the first semester of the academic year 1969–70.
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content: 1993.3019.06.09. Copy of an article, “Catholicism in Ireland, As I See It,” <I>The Furrow</I> 22 (Fall 1971): 615-21. This was published in an Irish journal shortly after Sister Helen Sullivan spent a sabbatical year at University College, Galway.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Kansas, Atchison
topic: label: web subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Women's History
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Women Mathematicians
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Religion
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content: Collected for the Museum from Sister Helen Sullivan
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 1993.3019.06
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content: 1993.3019
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content: 1993.3019.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documents, group of 9
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.5 cm x 25 cm x 32 cm; 2 9/16 in x 9 27/32 in x 12 19/32 in