Women in Mathematics

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MIT Press, 15 feb 1975 - 200 páginas
Mathematicians, science historians, and general readers will find this book a lively history; women will find it a reminder of a proud tradition and a challenge to take their rightful place in academic life today.

The colorful lives of these women, who often traveled in the most avant-garde circles of their day, are presented in fascinating detail. The obstacles and censures that were also a part of their lives are a sobering reminder of the bias against women still present in this and other fields of academic endeavor. Mathematicians, science historians, and general readers will find this book a lively history; women will find it a reminder of a proud tradition and a challenge to take their rightful place in academic life today.

 

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Introduction
1
Hypatia
21
Emilie de Breteuil Marquise du Châtelet
49
Caroline Herschel
71
Mary Fairfax Somerville
95
Sonya CorvinKrukovsky Kovalevsky
117
Emmy Amalie Noether
141
The Feminine Mathtique
163
Index
179
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