What did Anne Bosworth (American), Nadeschda Gernet (Russian), Vera Myller (Russian), Margarete Kahn (German), Klara Löbenstein (German), & Eva Koehler (German) all have in common? They were all David Hilbert’s doctoral students at Göttingen from 1900-1912 & accomplished mathematicians. 🧵

Anne Bosworth (1868-1907) graduated from Wellesley College in 1890, taught high school, became a professor of at what became the University of RI while getting her MS at the University of Chicago, then in 1900 earned her PhD at Göttingen. Her dissertation dealt with non-Euclidean geometry. (2/n)