Thyrsa Anne Frazier Svager
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: F
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Central State University
1400 Brush Row Road
Wilberforce, OH 45384-9999
Voice (513) 376-6364
Fax (513) 376-6530
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Education
PhD Institution: Ohio State University, 1965
Dissertation Title: On the Product of Absolutely Continuous
Transformations of Measure Spaces
Advisor: Paul Reichelderfer
MA Institution: Ohio State University, 1952
BA Institution: Antioch College
Biography
Thyrsa Frazier Svager is a graduate of Antioch College. She was employed
for one year each as a statistical analyst at Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base in Dayton, Ohio, and as an instructor at Texas Southern University
in Houston, and since 1954 has been a member of the faculty of Central
State University in Wilberforce, Ohio. Both her M.A. and Ph.D. were awarded
by Ohio State University in Columbus, the latter in 1965 under the direction
of Paul Reichelderfer. Her dissertation was "On [the Product of] Absolutely
Continuous Transformations of Measure Spaces." Her other publications include
"On Strong Differentiability," whose abstract appeared in this MONTHLY
in 1967, and two books: "Modern Elementary Algebra Workbook," Wm. C. Brown,
1969, and "Essential Mathematics for College Freshmen," Kendall-Hunt, 1976.
Her current research interest is computer applications of number theory.
Since 1966 she has been a professor and department chairman at Central
State. [Svager retired in 1993 from full time professional employment.]
[Kenschaft, Patricia
C., "Black Women in Mathematics in the United States," American Mathematical
Monthly, October 1981, p. 598.]
This excerpt was reprinted with permission from Patricia
C. Kenschaft. |