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This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
Sofya Kovalevskaya is known for her contributions to differential equations, and gives her name to the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem, the fundamental existence result for analytic partial differential equations. Margarethe Kahn (1880–c. 1942), one of the first female German doctorates, contributed to Hilbert's sixteenth problem
1889: Sofia Kovalevskaya was appointed as the first female professor in Northern Europe, at the University of Stockholm. [18] [19] 1890: Philippa Fawcett of Britain [20] became the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos Exam. Her score was 13 per cent higher than the second highest score.
1981: Doris Schattschneider became the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine, a refereed bimonthly publication of the Mathematical Association of America. [24] [25] 1983: Julia Robinson became the first female president of the American Mathematical Society, [19] and the first female mathematician to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. [6]
Noether grew up in the Bavarian city of Erlangen, depicted here in a 1916 postcard.. Amalie Emmy Noether was born on 23 March 1882 in Erlangen, Bavaria. [13] She was the first of four children of mathematician Max Noether and Ida Amalia Kaufmann, both from wealthy Jewish merchant families. [14]
Matilda, also spelled Mathilda and Mathilde, is the English form of the Germanic female name Mahthildis, which derives from the Old High German "maht" (meaning "might and strength") and "hild" (meaning "battle"). [1] The name was most popular in the United States between 1880 and 1910, when it was among the top 200 names given to girls. It left ...
Born in 1802, Muriel is said to be named "after the rather peculiar name of John's mother." [3] The name Meryl may be a variant of Muriel. [4] [5] The name Muriel was listed in the top 200 names from 1912 to 1933, with its highest rate of popularity in the 1920s. [6] Since that time, use of the name has declined and is now rare.
In mathematics education, ethnomathematics is the study of the relationship between mathematics and culture. [1] Often associated with "cultures without written expression", [2] it may also be defined as "the mathematics which is practised among identifiable cultural groups". [3]