Nola Anderson Haynes (1897–1996) was an American mathematician and one of the few women to earn her PhD in math in the United States before World War II.
She returned to the University of Missouri in Columbia, for her master's degree with a major in mathematics and a minor in astronomy.
She received her doctorate in 1929, in mathematics and astronomy, under Louis Ingold (1872–1935) with the dissertation An Extension of Maschke's Symbolism.
[3] One member of her advisory board was the head of the Astronomy department, Eli Stuart Haynes, who would later become her husband.
[1] In 1930, Anderson joined the faculty at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College of Tulane University in New Orleans, as associate professor and acting chair of the department.