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xix, 412 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Bibliografía

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contenido

In her own words / Olga Taussky-Todd -- Remembering Olga Taussky Todd / Chandler Davis -- Being Julia Robinson's sister / Constance Reid -- Euphemia Lofton Haynes -- Marjorie Lee Browne / Patricia Clark Kenschaft -- Cora Ratto de Sadosky / Cora Sadosky -- Fifty years in mathematics / Mabel S. Barnes -- Emmy Noether / Emiliana Pasca Noether -- My grandmother, Grace Chisholm Young / Sylvia M. Wiegand -- Like mother, like daughter / Ivor Grattan-Guinness -- Charlotte Angas Scott / Patricia Clark Kenschaft -- Sonia Kovalevsky / Linda Keen -- Elizaveta Fedorovna Litvinova / Ann Hibner Koblitz -- Ada Byron Lovelace / Dana Angluin -- Sophie Germain / Mary W. Gray -- Christine Ladd Franklin and Mary Fairfax Somerville -- Women and mathematical ability / Ralph P. Boas -- AWM's first twenty years : the presidents' perspectives / Lenore Blum -- Activities and awards -- AWM in the 1990s / Jean E. Taylor and Sylvia M. Wiegand -- 1996 : women preside -- Affirmative action : what is it and what should it be? / Cora Sadosky -- Across borders / Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett -- Women invited as speakers at ICMs -- ICM activities on women in mathematics -- International views on education / Elizabeth S. Allman -- Crossing ocean and equator / Isabel Salgado Labouriau -- Voices from six continents -- Pathways in mathematics / Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett -- Black and female / Vivienne Malone Mayes -- In remembrance / Etta Zuber Falconer and Lee Lorch -- How I decided to pursue a Ph. D. in mathematics / Geraldine Darden -- A double dose of discrimination / Elayne Arrington-Idowu -- Prejudice and isolation, or cooperation and support? -- Moment maps in stable bundles / Karen Uhlenbeck -- Honors and awards. Uhlenbeck receives national medal of science ; Gung and Hu award conferred on Schafer / Linda R. Sons ; Spikes honored as administrator and educator ; Chauvenet prize awarded to Birman -- Expository writing / Joan S. Birman -- Country school to grad school / Burton W. Jones and Robert A. Rosenbaum -- The real world of the 1930s / Dorothy L. Bernstein -- Two mentors. Violet Bushwick Haas / Pamela G. Coxson ; Alice B. Dickinson / Joan P. Hutchinson -- Increasing minority representation in mathematics / William A. Hawkins ... [et al.] -- Research and teaching at liberal arts colleges / Lynne M. Butler -- Sustaining a research program / Karen Brucks, Bettye Anne Case, and Anne M. Leggett -- Are student ratings unfair to women? / Neal I. Koblitz -- Rules for academic success / Audrey A. Terras -- Government and administration / Mina Rees -- Citations -- Computer science / Maria M. Klawe -- Aerospace / Elizabeth Ralston -- Oil industry / Margaret Waid -- Publishing / Anneli Lax, Bettye Anne Case, and Anne M. Leggett -- National Security Agency / Barbara Brown Flinn -- Biomedical research / Sarah E. Holte -- Communications industry / Margaret H. Wright -- How I became a mathematician / Louise Hay -- Is geography destiny? / Margaret A.M. Murray -- Universities and the two-body problem / Susan Landau -- Lifestyle discussions. The two-city existence / Judy Green -- Spatial separation in family life / Marian Boykan Pour-El -- Tenure track, mommy track / Susan Landau -- Problems, including mathematical problems, from my early years / Cathleen Synge Morawetz -- Looking back- looking ahead / Evelyn Boyd Granville -- Olga Taussky and class field theory / Christa Binder -- Numbers, matrices, and commutativity / Helene Shapiro -- The Taussky Todd celebration / Bettye Anne Case ... [et al.] -- A mathematician at NIST today / Fern Y. Hunt -- What use is statistics for massive data? / Diane Lambert -- Math, with an attitude / Linda Petzold -- Biased random walk : a brief mathematical biography / Nancy Kopell -- Challenges / Karen Uhlenbeck -- Mathematics in "my century" / Carolyn S. Gordon -- Thought problems / Ingrid Daubechies -- Outreach and variety / Suzanne Lenhart -- Demographic trends and challenges / Carolyn R. Mahoney -- Me, a mathematician? / Catherine A. Roberts -- My path toward mathematics / Karen E. Smith -- A cautionary tale / Helen Moore -- Role models and mentors / Judy L. Walker -- An energetic career / Tamara G. Kolda -- For the love of mathematics / Tasha R. Inniss -- Mathematics : mortals and morals / Katherine Socha.

Url

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0612/2004048843.html

Materia

Women in mathematics -- United States -- History.

Feminism and science -- United States.

Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.

Mathematics -- Vocational guidance -- United States.

Feminism and science.

Mathematics -- Vocational guidance.

Women in mathematics.

Women mathematicians.

United States.

Género/Forma

Biography.

History.

Otro Autor

Case, Bettye Anne.

Leggett, Anne M.

ISBN

0691114625 (acid-free paper)

9780691114620 (acid-free paper)