May Beenken
May Margaret Beenken was an American mathematician.Life
Beenken was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her parents were Sophie Kirn and Henry Beenken.Career
Beenken completed her PhD at the University of Chicago in 1928. Her doctoral advisor was Ernest Preston Lane and her thesis was titled Surfaces in Five-Dimensional Space. She later became an instructor at Oshkosh Teacher's College. She also served as a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles.
