Hueter biography

April 23, 1965 -

Written by Yi Ling Lin, Class of 2004 (Baruch College - City University of New York)

Irene Hueter was one of the first women to earn a Ph.D.

in the statistics department at the University of Bern in Switzerland. It was rare for a woman in Switzerland to become a mathematician working in academia.

Hueter biography

By the time she received her Ph.D. and left Switzerland, there were only two female math professors in all the Swiss universities.

Dr. Hueter was born in Bern, Switzerland. Before entering high school, she was often discouraged to like math as a girl and was pushed in other directions in spite of mathematics being her strongest subject.

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In the seventh grade, girls at her school were forced to take a sewing class while all boys took geometry. While the school did not want to make an exception upon her request to take the geometry, she still managed to learn it from her male classmates.

In exchange, she solved the problems that they got stuck on.

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