Person: Karp, Carol Ruth
Carol Karp was an American mathematical logician whose research was closely linked to algebra. She made a reputation both as a teacher and researcher, and she was undertaking important work on infinitary logic and recursion theory when she died at the age of 46.
Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):
- We can see that Carol was a very successful student at Alliance High School from information in Red and Blue, the Alliance High School student newspaper.
- Carol graduated from Alliance High School in 1944.
- Around the same time Carol moved to Michigan too, enrolling for a Master's degree at Michigan State College (now Michigan State University) in East Lansing.
- Arthur Karp (1930-2020) had been born in the Bronx, New York City on 20 June 1930.
- After her marriage to Arthur Karp, Carol was known as Carol Karp.
- However Karp was teaching several years before the award of her Ph.D. having accepted a position as instructor at New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1953.
- Karp spent a year at the College in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
- On her return from Japan, Karp accepted a post as an instructor at the University of Maryland.
- Before she submitted her thesis, Karp published four abstracts in Volume 5 of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
- Soon after the award of her doctorate Karp was promoted, in 1960, to assistant professor at the University of Maryland.
- Basically Karp wanted to return to Gödel's original proof-theoretic definitions of recursive sets but of course using more liberal notions of proof so as to obtain generalisations of recursion theory.
- Carol Karp was in the habit of doing most of her own research work during the summer months.
- It was both as a teacher and researcher that Karp made her reputation.
Born 10 August 1926, Forest Grove, Ottawa County, Michigan, USA. Died 20 August 1972, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
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