Mary Lee Wheat Gray is an American

United States

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 mathematician. She is the author of books and papers in the fields of mathematics

Mathematics

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, mathematics education

Mathematics education

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, computer science

Computer science

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, applied statistics, economic equity, discrimination law, and academic freedom

Academic freedom

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Gray completed her undergraduate degree from Hastings College

Hastings College

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 and her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Kansas

University of Kansas

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. She also completed her J.D. from Washington College of Law

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. She is a member of the District of Columbia and U.S. Supreme Court bars.

Gray was one of the founding members of the Association for Women in Mathematics

Association for Women in Mathematics

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 (AWM) and the first President of the AWM from 1971 to 1973.

Gray has received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Mentoring from President George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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. She has also received honorary degrees from the University of Nebraska and Hastings College.

External links

• "Mary Gray", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
  Agnes Scott College
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