Elizabeth Cuthill

Education and career

Cuthill was born on October 16, 1923, in Connecticut, the daughter of Paul Richard Hahnemann and Barbara Baumann Hahnemann.

She earned a master's degree in applied mathematics at Brown University in 1946, with a master's thesis "On the velocity distribution and stability of flow through a two-dimensional channel" supervised by Chia-Chiao Lin. After this, she completed a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1951; her dissertation, Integrals on Spaces of Functions which are Real and Continuous on Finite and Infinite Intervals, was supervised by Robert Horton Cameron. While completing her doctorate, she became an instructor at Purdue University. In 1953, she became a researcher for the United States Navy, working at the David Taylor Model Basin, where she became Numerical Analysis Coordinator for the Computation, Mathematics, and Logistics Department.

She died on January 11, 2011, in Frederick, Maryland.