Bertha Irene Hart was an American

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

. She had a

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degree from

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, and was at one point an associate professor of mathematics for Western Maryland College.

Affiliations

In 1946 she was elected to “ordinary membership” of the

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. She was elected as a Fellow of the

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in 1957. At that time she was also affiliated with the Ballistic Research Laboratory.

Notable publications

* “Significance Levels for the Ratio of the Mean Square Successive Difference to the Variance”, B. I. Hart, ''

The Annals of Mathematical Statistics The ''Annals of Mathematical Statistics'' was a peer-reviewed statistics journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics from 1930 to 1972. It was superseded by the ''Annals of Statistics'' and the ''Annals of Probability''. In 1938, ...

'', Vol. 13, No. 4 (Dec., 1942), pp. 445–447 * “Tabulation of the Probabilities for the Ratio of the Mean Square Successive Difference to the Variance”, B. I. Hart,

John von Neumann John von Neumann (; hu, Neumann János Lajos, ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest cove ...

, ''

'', Vol. 13, No. 2 (Jun., 1942), pp. 207–214 * The Mean Square Successive Difference,

J. von Neumann John von Neumann (; hu, Neumann János Lajos, ; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath. He was regarded as having perhaps the widest cover ...

, R. H. Kent, H. R. Bellinson, B. I. Hart, ''

'', Vol. 12, No. 2 (Jun., 1941), pp. 153–162

References

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