Dorothy E. Stahl Brady | |
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Born |
Elk River, Minnesota |
June 14, 1903
Died | April 17, 1977 Pine Hill, New York |
(aged 73)
Nationality | American |
Fields |
Mathematics Economics |
Institutions |
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania University of Chicago |
Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley Cornell University Reed College |
Doctoral advisor | John Hector McDonald |
Spouse | Robert A. Brady (m. 1924; div. 1936) |
Dorothy Elizabeth Stahl Brady (June 14, 1903 – April 17, 1977) was an American mathematician and economist. She was a professor of economics at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1958 to 1970.
Born in Elk River, Minnesota, she grew up in Portland, Oregon, attending Lincoln High School and later Reed College studying mathematics and physics. In June 1924 she married fellow Reed student Robert A. Brady. The couple divorced in 1936. Brady earned PhD in mathematics from University of California, Berkeley in 1933.
She became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1949.