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Women in mathematics

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MIT Press, 1974 - 185 páginas
"'It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place,'" remarks the Red Queen to Alice in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. "'If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!' It is surely a part of [Carroll's] genius that he has this dialogue take place between two females," Lynn Osen notes dryly, "for nowhere is this metaphor more applicable than it is for women in mathematics." Yet despite the prejudice against intellectual women through almost all ages, there have always been those with the courage and determination to make their gifts known. Women in Mathematics uses biographies of selected women mathematicians to trace the history of feminine scholarship in this area from prehistory to the present. They include Hypatia, a professor of mathematics and philosophy at the University of Alexandria about 400 A.D.; Maria Agnesi, whose Analytical Institutions was one of the first and finest calculus texts of the eighteenth century; Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet, who first translated Newton's Principia into French and who was Voltaire's intellectual and intimate companion; Caroline Herschel, an assistant to her brother, Sir William Herschel, and a pioneer astronomer in her own right; Sophie Germain, who won the grand prix of the French Academy of Sciences in 1816; Mary Somerville, whose Mechanisms of the Heavens and The Connections of the Physical Sciences, both written lucidly and with a minimum of mathematical jargon, contributed to an effort to reduce English indifference to mathematical and scientific progress in the eighteenth century; Sonya Kovalevsky, the first woman elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences; and Emmy Noether, who had a profound influence on modern algebra. 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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For a high school math project, I had to choose a book title from the list my teacher gave me, and I decided to read this book because it was relatively short. However, once I started reading it, I ... Leer reseña completa

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Well-researched articles about a variety of women mathematicians. Leer reseña completa

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Índice

Introduction
1
Hypatia
21
Emilie de Breteuil Marquise du Chatelet
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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No. 227: Women in Mathematics
Some summary thoughts on women in mathematics. ... It's an MIT Press book, Women in Mathematics , by Lynn Osen. Some patterns have come out of all this. ...
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JSTOR: Women in Mathematics.
Women in Mathematics addresses itself to a topic of current interest. One would like to have such a book to recommend to young women mathematics majors who ...
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Women in Mathematics
Women in Mathematics Book by Lynn M. Osen; 1974. Read Women in Mathematics at Questia library.
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BIOGRAPHIES : Ouvrages généraux
Sister Miriam COONEY: Celebrating Women in Mathematics and Science, National Council of .... Profiles of Women in Mathematics, The Emmy Noether Lectures, ...
www.femmes-et-maths.fr/ biblio/ biblio-1-1.html

HISTORICAL WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS
Women in Mathematics: The Addition of Difference. Indianapolis: Indiana ... Women in Mathematics. Cambridge: The Massachusetts Institute of ...
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Using Technology Women in Mathematics
women in mathematics, a subject not covered in any. suitable textbook. Rather than trying to use multiple ... Women in Mathematics, first offered in spring ...
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equity.html
Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Greenwood Press. ... Women in Mathematics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press. ...
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Resources
Women in Mathematics and Physics: Inhibitors and Enhancers. Ann Arbor: Center for the Education of Women (734-998-7080), University of Michigan, 1992. ...
www.uwm.edu/ ~kellyk2/ resources.html

History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology
The ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS NEWSLETTER regularly features .... 807 Kenschaft, Patricia C. "Black Women in Mathematics in the United States. ...
womenst.library.wisc.edu/ bibliogs/ hws/ hws0604.htm

Biographies of Women Mathematical Scientists and History of Women ...
[1], AMS Notices Special Issue on Women in Mathematics, Notices of the American ... [6], Profiles of Women in Mathematics - The Emmy Noether Lectures, ...
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Sobre el autor (1974)

Kathleen Baynes is Professor at the Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis.

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