| Description |
xix, 412 p., [22] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Making a choice / Judith Roitman -- Universities and the two-body problem / Susan Landau -- Lifestyle discussions. 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 -- Taussky Todd celebration / Bettye Anne Case ... [et al.] -- 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 -- Cautionary tale / Helen Moore -- Role models and mentors / Judy L. Walker -- Energetic career / Tamara G. Kolda -- For the love of mathematics / Tasha R. Inniss -- Mathematics: mortals and morals / Katherine Socha. |
| Subject |
Women in mathematics -- United States -- History.
|
|
Feminism and science.
|
|
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.
|
|
Mathematics -- Vocational guidance.
|
| Added Author |
Case, Bettye Anne.
|
|
Leggett, Anne M.
|
| ISBN |
0691114625 (acid-free paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 265693527 |
|
YDXCP 2168329 |
|
