Women in Science and Engineering at Yale (2020 Edition)

Ruth Goulding Wood, Ph.D.

Ruth Wood was a mathematician who spent a year at Yale as a Fellow and then taught for a year at Mount Holyoke College. She returned to Yale for a Ph.D. in Mathematics (1901) and authored a dissertation, “Non-Euclidean Displacements and Symmetry Transformations.” Her research was in non–Euclidean geometry. She served as Instructor in Mathematics at Smith College (1902). Next, she studied at Göttingen in Germany (1908–1909) and then returned to Smith College as a professor.