About Sheila Scott Macintyre
Sheila Scott Macintyre FRSE (23 April 1910 – 21 March 1960) was a Scottish mathematician best known for her work on the Whittaker constant. Macintyre is also known for co-authoring a German–English mathematics dictionary with Edith Witte. == Education == Sheila Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 23 April 1910, the daughter of Helen Myers Meldrum and James Alexander Scott. The family lived at 24 Dudley Avenue close to Trinity Academy, where her father was a teacher. She attended Trinity Academy, Edinburgh, during which time her father was appointed rector of the academy. Between 1926 and 1928 she attended Edinburgh Ladies' College (now The Mary Erskine School), where she graduated as dux in mathematics and joint dux of the college. She studied at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1932 with an MA in mathematics and natural philosophy. Afterwards, she continued her studies at Girton College, Cambridge, taking the Mathematical Tripos. In her final year at the university she worked on a research project under the supervision of Mary Cartwright. This resulted in her first published work On the Asymptotic Periods of Integral Functions.
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