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Grace Chisholm Young (née Chisholm, 15 March 1868 – 29 March 1944) was an English mathematician. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge , England and continued her studies at Göttingen University in Germany, where in 1895 she received a doctorate. [ 1 ]
The book is aimed at a young audience, [5] with many images and few mathematical details. [3] [5] Nevertheless, each biography is accompanied by a general-audience introduction to the subject's mathematical work, [4] and beyond images of the women profiled, the book includes many mathematical illustrations and historical images that bring to life these contributions.
William Henry Young FRS [1] (London, 20 October 1863 – Lausanne, 7 July 1942) was an English mathematician. Young was educated at City of London School and Peterhouse, Cambridge . [ 2 ] He worked on measure theory , Fourier series , differential calculus , amongst other fields, and made contributions to the study of functions of several ...
Peter Chadwick (mathematician) D. G. Champernowne; Sydney Chapman (mathematician) Grace Chisholm Young; Joan Clarke; Charles William Clenshaw; Wilfred Cockcroft; Edward Collingwood; John Horton Conway; S. Barry Cooper; Homersham Cox (mathematician) Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter; William Crawley-Boevey; David Crighton; Stella Cunliffe
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Phyllis Chinn (born 1941), American graph theorist and historian of mathematics; Grace Chisholm Young (1868–1944), English mathematician, first woman to receive a German doctorate; Sonya Christian, Indian mathematician and American community college administrator; YoungJu Choie (born 1959), Korean number theorist
Laurence Chisholm Young (14 July 1905 – 24 December 2000) was a British mathematician known for his contributions to measure theory, the calculus of variations, optimal control theory, and potential theory. He was the son of William Henry Young and Grace Chisholm Young, both prominent mathematicians. He moved to the US in 1949 but never ...
Reviewer Herbert Meschkowski suggests that Grace Chisholm Young should have been mentioned. And reviewers Margaret Hayman and Edith Robinson both complain about the book's focus on its subjects' victimization by society, rather than either their personal lives and personalities or their mathematical accomplishments.