Carolyn Mahoney

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1946

American mathematician

Worked at Elizabeth City State University

mathematician

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almost every professor she came in contact with at Ohio State provided some measure of mentoring or acted as a role model.

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Kept here, labelled, rather than mixed in above.

I always loved mathematics

I can remember dreaming about solutions to math problems in eighth grade.

I was definitely in a severe minority situation. [But] … enough people came forward to help that the negative effects of racism were minimized for me.