Haynes preferred to go by her middle name, Euphemia, as opposed to Martha. Her mother worked as a kindergarten teacher, and her father, William Lofton, was a dentist. Lofton “was a member of the ...

Every year, Pi Day is celebrated on March 14. It's the celebration of the mathematical sign pi, and the date is symbolic because (3.14) signifies the first three digits of pi. This year ESSENCE is ...

Euphemia Lofton Haynes was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, which she received in 1943 from the Catholic University of America. A mathematics major at Smith, she went ...