Provides an account of nine women mathematicians, their lives and their work, with mathematics activities which relate to the work of each.

A history of women in science from antiquity through the nineteenth century.

A historical account of women's participation in the sciences: mathematics, medicine, astronomy, archeology, etc.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, mathematicians developed a wealth of new ideas but had not carefully employed accurate definitions, proofs, or procedures to document and ...

Introduces the lives and works of 170 important mathematicians from around the world and throughout history.

The books contains biographies and bibliographies of some forty leading women mathematicians. The majority of the essays were written by women who are themselves mathematicians ...