A. Mary Tropper
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Agnes Mary Tropper (née Barnett; 1917–2009) was a British mathematician, textbook author, and translator.
Agnes Mary Barnett was born in Sheffield in 1917, and grew up in London. She was educated at Christ's Hospital, a boarding school in Hertford, supported by a scholarship from the county of London. She read mathematics at Bedford College, London,[1] a school for the higher education of women in the University of London that later became part of Royal Holloway, University of London,[2] and earned first-class honours in 1939.[1] She also earned an education diploma from the London Institute of Education,[1] another school of the University of London that later merged into University College London as the UCL Institute of Education.[3]
In the early 1940s she studied part-time for a master's degree at Birkbeck College, while working as a teacher.[1] She completed a Ph.D. in 1953, through the University of London. Her doctoral dissertation, Infinite Matrices: A Study of Sequence Transformations and Reciprocals, was supervised by Richard G. Cooke.[4]
