degree at Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1937 and her Ph.D. in 1940 under Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler from Bryn Mawr College with a dissertation entitled On measure in abstract sets.

Then she went on to a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey,[5] where she first met fellow mathematician Arthur Harold Stone.

She was an invited speaker at a measure theory conference at Northern Illinois University in 1980.

She died a month later in Brookline, Massachusetts and was buried at Kehillath Jacob Cemetery in West Roxbury.

Maharam published it in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America in 1942.