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Women in Mathematics

Part of the Association for Women in Mathematics Series Book Series (volume 10)

Editors: Beery, Janet L.; Greenwald, Sarah J.; Jensen-Vallin, Jacqueline A.; Mast, Maura B.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66694-5

ISBN: 978-3-319-66693-8

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 3, 2017

1 - 10 of 21 Chapters

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Fostering Academic and Mathematical Excellence at Girton College 1870–1940

McMurran, Shawnee L.; Tattersall, James J.

Pages: 3 –35

[Founded in 1869, Girton College, Cambridge was Britain’s first residential college for women to offer an education at degree level. At the end of the nineteenth century, women’s colleges such as Girton played a significant role in improving girls’ education. In its early years, women often came...
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Pioneers: The Pre-1940 PhD’s

Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne

Pages: 37 –50

[This chapter focuses on women in American mathematics during the century leading up to the founding of the AWM in 1971. In particular, it reviews results that appear in the authors’ 2009 book Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD’s and in the supplementary material that can...
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Käte Hey and Margaret Matchett—Two Women PhD Students of Emil Artin

Dumbaugh, Della; Schwermer, Joachim

Pages: 51 –66

[The renowned mathematician Emil Artin supervised 31 doctoral students during his career, two of whom were women. His first doctoral student, Käte Hey, completed her PhD at the University of Hamburg in 1927, writing a thesis on the theory of zeta functions of simple algebras. Artin’s second...
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Making Her Mark on a Century of Turmoil and Triumph: A Tribute to Polish Women in Mathematics

Kenney, Emelie Agnes

Pages: 67 –89

[New starts, new beginnings, doubt, excitement, difficulties, and positive outcomes are familiar to most mathematicians. To the women who are the focus of this paper, however, new beginnings meant relocating to a different continent or changing their focus from mathematics to mathematics...
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Toward a Documentary History of American Women Mathematics PhDs: The Doctoral Classes of 1940–1959

Murray, Margaret A. M.

Pages: 91 –101

[In 1993, I started to compile a database of biographical information on the roughly 200 women who earned PhDs in mathematics from US colleges and universities during the 1940s and 1950s. At the time, my primary motivation was to locate and interview as many of those still living as I reasonably...
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Excellence and Devotion: Black Women in Mathematics in the United States

Walker, Erica N.

Pages: 103 –120

[This reflective essay explores the rich history of Black women in mathematics in the United States, and their contributions to academe, research, and industry. Despite their significant activity in the field, Black women’s contributions are often “hidden”—their work and research undervalued,...
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Founders, Feminists, and a Fascist – Some Notable Women in the Missouri Section of the MAA

Hall, Leon

Pages: 121 –140

[In the history of the Missouri Section of the MAA, some of the more interesting people who influenced the growth and development of the section through the years were and are women. In this chapter, we discuss the contributions of a few (certainly not all) of these women to the Missouri Section...
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Celebrating the Contributions of Three Women to Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Dewar, Jacqueline M.

Pages: 141 –156

[This chapter celebrates the lives and accomplishments of three women mathematics educators whom the author has had the privilege to know. The three women are Ruth Afflack (California State University Long Beach), Natalie Ambrose (Immaculate Heart High School), and Teri Perl (The Learning...
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The Krieger-Nelson Prize Lectureship

Turner, Laura E.

Pages: 157 –174

[The Krieger-Nelson Prize Lectureship honours outstanding research by women members of the Canadian mathematical community. First awarded in 1995, it is named after Cecilia Krieger (1894–1974), the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from a Canadian University, and Evelyn Nelson...
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Mathematics, Live! Contemporary Perspectives on a Life and Career in Mathematics

Ott, Katharine A.

Pages: 175 –193

[This chapter features a compilation of excerpts from interviews with female mathematicians. Ten women at varying points in their career discuss their early interest in mathematics, their professional duties and responsibilities, and mentoring.]

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