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.
Nola Lee Anderson was born January 9, 1897, on a farm in 1897 in Linn County, Missouri, as one of four children.
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.