Notable women in mathematics
Subtitle: a biographical dictionary
By: edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780313291319
Subjects: Mathematikerin; Wiskundigen; Vrouwen; Women mathematicians; Biographie; Biography
Description: "Substantive biographical essays on 59 women from around the world who have made significant contributions to mathematics from antiquity to the present...The emphasis is on contemporary mathematics."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Maria Gaetana Agnesi; title: Andrea Bertozzi; title: Lenore Blum; title: Sylvia Bozeman; title: Marjorie Lee Browne; title: Leone Burton; title: Fan King Chung; title: Ingrid Daubechies; title: Emilie de Breteuil du Chatelet; title: Etta Zuber Falconer; title: Joan Feigenbaum; title: Elizabeth Fennema; title: Herta Taussig Freitag; title: Sophie Germain; title: Evelyn Boyd Granville; title: Mary Gray; title: Gloria Conyers Hewitt; title: Grace Brewster Murray Hopper; title: Rhonda Hughes; title: Joan Hutchinson; title: Hypatia; title: Nancy Kopell; title: Sofya Korvin-Krukovskaya Kovalevskaya; title: Christine Ladd-Franklin; title: Anneli Lax; title: Gilah Chaya Vanderhoek Leder; title: Emma Trotskaya Lehmer; title: Ada Augusta Byron Lovelace; title: Vivienne Malone-Mayes; title: Dusa Waddington McDuff; title: Marie-Louise Michelsohn; title: Cathleen Synge Morawetz; title: Emmy Noether; title: Karen Parshall; title: Bernadette Perrin-Riou; title: Harriet Pollatsek; title: Cheryl Praeger; title: Mina Spiegel Rees; title: Ida Rhodes; title: Julia Bowman Robinson; title: Judith Roitman; title: Mary Ellen Rudin; title: Mary Beth Ruskai; title: Cora Sadosky; title: Alice Turner Schafer; title: Doris Wood Schattschneider; title: Charlotte Angas Scott; title: Marjorie Wikler Senechal; title: Lesley Milman Sibner; title: Mary Fairfax Grieg Somerville; title: Pauline Sperry; title: Alicia Boole Stott; title: Olga Taussky-Todd; title: Jean Taylor; title: Chuu-Lian Terng; title: Karen Uhlenbeck; title: Marion Walter; title: Sylvia Young Wiegand; title: Grace Chisholm Young.