The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course

82 4. WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS produced three notable women mathematicians, whose biographies exhibit some noticeable similarities a ...

MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN 83 that, despite her strong interest in mathematics, she would have gotten lost with- out his instructio ...

84 4. WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS is less than 100.^10 Gauss also praised her work very highly. He did not learn her identity until 180 ...

MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN 85 the curvature of surfaces (another interest of Gauss, but also connected with elas- ticity through a ...

86 (. WOMRN MATHEMATICIANS in the Proceedings of the Royal Society in 1826 and, as mentioned, quoted by John Farrar and thereby ...

MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN 87 solve urgent practical problems. Most often today such work comes from physi- cists, who state mathem ...

88 4. WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS 3.3. Four modern pioneers. The struggle for a woman's right to be a scientist or mathematician was ve ...

MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN 89 philosopher-mathematician Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), who paid trib- ute to her work in promo ...

90 4. WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS Since Berlin would not award the degree, he wrote to the more liberal University of Gottingen and req ...

MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN 91 J Ë RI/,,U First page of an undated letter from Kovalevskaya. Probably the letter was written in June ...

92 4. WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS (1804 1851). All she had to do was reduce the equations of motion to integrals; evaluating them was w ...

MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN 93 Resistance from conservatives. Lest it be thought that the presence of such power- ful talents as Cha ...

94 4. WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS who had the same tutor that she had. With the support of this tutor and her fellow women students, sh ...

MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN 95 Portraits of Felix Klein and David Hubert in the Mathematisches Institut and streets in Gottingen nam ...

96 4. WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS men who published more than was good for him." Moreover, he received a great deal of collaboration fr ...

MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN 97 began in September 1939 they were on holiday in Switzerland, and there was real fear that Switzerland ...

98 4. WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS however, finding work at a university, was formidable. Emmy Noether spent many years working without ...

MODERN EUROPEAN WOMEN 99 Emmy Noether Hermann Weyl proof of her ability, but it was still short of what she deserved. Hubert's ...

100 4. WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.^17 Despite the gathering clouds in Germany, she re ...

AMERICAN WOMEN 101 Christine Ladd-Franklin. The first of the two American women we shall discuss was induced by prevailing pre ...