Education
She earned her Bachelor of Surgery degree at Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1937 and her Doctor of Philosophy in 1940 under Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler from Bryn Mawr College with a dissertation entitled On measure in abstract sets.
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Dorothy Maharam
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Her husband was British mathematician Arthur Harold Stone. Participant of her thesis was published in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. Then she went on to a postdoc at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where she first met Arthur Harold Stone. She pioneered the research of finitely additive measures on integers.
They both lectured at various universities in the United States of America and Great Britain and were faculty at the University of Rochester for many years.
Their two children, David and Ellen, both became mathematicians as well. She retired in 2001.
