Elizabeth Adam McHarg (22 April 1923 – 29 April 1999)[1] was a Scottish mathematician who, in 1965, became the first female president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.[2][3]
McHarg studied at the Glasgow High School for Girls and then at the University of Glasgow, earning a master's degree with first-class honours in mathematics and natural philosophy in 1943. The university awarded her the Thomas Logan Medal and a George A. Clark scholarship, funding her as a researcher at Girton College, Cambridge.[1] At Girton, she studied nonlinear partial differential equations with Mary Cartwright and completed her Ph.D. in 1948.[1][4]
McHarg returned to the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in 1948. There, she became an expert in special functions.[1] She also translated the text Differential Equations by Francesco Tricomi from Italian into English; her translation was published in 1961 by Hafner and republished in 2012 by Dover Publications.[1][5]
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