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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 ...
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1868 – Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944) [72] 1869 – Stanisław Wojciechowski, Polish scholar and politician, President of the Republic of Poland (d. 1953) [73] 1874 – Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1952) [74] 1878 – Reza Shah, Iranian Shah (d. 1944) [75]
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In early 2020, Grace Young was gearing up to start working on her fourth cookbook. The award-winning author's first three books contain collections of beautifully detailed recipes, packed with ...
Reviewer Herbert Meschkowski suggests that Grace Chisholm Young should have been mentioned. [6] 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.