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The book is divided into three sections. The first two cover mathematics before and after World War II, when women's mathematical contributions to codebreaking and other aspects of the war effort became crucial; [2] together they include the biographies of 11 mathematicians. The final section, on modern (post-1965) mathematics has another 16. [1]
Leone Burton (1936–2007), British researcher in ethnomathematics, founded book series on women in mathematics; Edith Bush (1882–1977), American mathematician, first female engineering professor at Tufts University; Ida Busbridge (1908–1988), studied integral equations and radiative transfer, first female mathematics fellow at Oxford
The mathematicians profiled here are Hypatia, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Émilie du Châtelet, Caroline Herschel, Sophie Germain, Mary Somerville, Sofya Kovalevskaya, and Emmy Noether. [2] One of the two closing chapters features shorter profiles of additional women mathematicians, "rather curiously selected" and "mostly working in America". [3]
Complexities: Women in Mathematics is an edited volume on women in mathematics that "contains the stories and insights of more than eighty female mathematicians". [1] It was edited by Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett, based on a collection of material from the Newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, and published by Princeton University Press in 2005 (ISBN 0-691-11462-5).
Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's is a book on women in mathematics.It was written by Judy Green and Jeanne LaDuke, based on a long study beginning in 1978, [1] and was published in 2009 by the American Mathematical Society and London Mathematical Society as volume 34 in their joint History of Mathematics series.
It is the "first and best known" of several organizations devoted to women in mathematics in Europe. [72] 1987: Eileen Poiani became the first female president of Pi Mu Epsilon. [73] 1988: American mathematician Doris Schattschneider became the first woman to present the Mathematical Association of America’s J. Sutherland Frame Lectures. [30 ...
The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God; W. Women in Mathematics (book) This page was last edited on 17 March 2023, at 12:32 (UTC). Text ...
McKellar's second book, Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss, [33] was released on August 5, 2008. The book's target audience is girls in the 7th through 9th grades. Her third book, Hot X: Algebra Exposed! [34] covers algebra topics, while the previous two titles were intended as "algebra-readiness books." [35] Hot X was published on ...
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