Ruth aaronson bari biography of albert

Ruth Aaronson Bari (November 17, 1917 – August 25, 2005) was an American mathematician known for her work in graph theory and homomorphisms.

The daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants to the U.S., she was a professor at George Washington University beginning in 1966.

Ruth aaronson bari biography of albert

She was the mother of environmental activist Judi Bari, science reporter Gina Kolata and art historian Martha Bari.

Career

Bari grew up in Brooklyn and attended Brooklyn College, earning her bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1939.

She earned her MA at Johns Hopkins University in 1943, but had originally enrolled in the doctoral program. When the university suggested that women in the graduate program should give up their fellowships so that men returning from WWII could study, Bari acceded.

After marrying Arthur Bari she spent the next two decades devoted to family. She returned to Johns Hopkins, where she completed her dissertation on "absolute reducibility of maps of at most 19 r