Gloria Olive (8 June 1923 – 17 April 2006) was a New Zealand academic mathematician.
Academic career
Olive began her mathematics career in the United States. She graduated with a BA from Brooklyn College in 1944 followed by an MA from the University of Wisconsin in 1946 and a PhD from the University of Oregon in 1950, with the dissertation Generalised Powers.
In 1972 she took up a teaching position at the University of Otago. She became Senior Lecturer in Mathematics. She retired in December 1988 and died in Dunedin in 2006.
Contributions
Olive was one of a small group of approximately 7 women who established the precursor group to the Association for Women in Mathematics.
