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Complexities: women in mathematics
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication Date
c2005
Language
English
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From the Book
I. Inspiration
1. From the twentieth century
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 Bowne / Patricia Clark Kenschaft
Cora Ratto de Sadosky / Cora Sadosky
Fifty years in mathematics / Mabel S. Barnes
Emmy Noether / Emiliana Pasca Noether
2. From earlier time
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 Frankln and Mary Fairfax Somerville
II. Joining together
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
III. Choices and challenges
Pathways in mathematics / Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett
1. dual triumph
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 discriminatin / Elayne Arrington-Idowu
Prejudice and isolation, or cooperation and support?
2. Inside the academy
Moment maps in stable bundles / Karen Uhlenbeck
Honors and awards
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
Increasing minority representation in mathematics / William A. Hawkins, Gloria Hewitt, John W. Alexander and Bettye Anne Case
Research and teaching in 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
3. Outside the academy
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
4. Having a life
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
Lifestyles discussions
two-city existence / Judy Green
Spatial separation in family life / Marian Boykan Pour-El
Tenure track, mommy track / Susan Landau
IV. Celebration
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 communtativity / Helene Shapiro
Taussky Todd celebration / Bettye Anne Case, Krystyna Kuperberg, Helen Moore and Lesley A. Ward
mathematician at NIST today / Fern Y. Hunt
What use is statistics for massive data? / Diane Lambert
Math, with an attitude / Linda Petzold
V. Into a new century
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.
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