Edna Kramer

Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar (May 11, 1902 – July 9, 1984), born Edna Ernestine Kramer, was an American mathematician and author of mathematics books.

summa cum laude in mathematics from Hunter College in 1922.

in 1925 and Ph.D. in 1930 in mathematics (with a minor in physics) from Columbia University with Edward Kasner as her advisor.

[3] Kramer married the French teacher Benedict Taxier Lassar on July 2, 1935.

Kramer-Lassar died at the age of 82 in Manhattan of Parkinson's disease.