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Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary
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Notable women in mathematics : a biographical dictionary

Author: Charlene Morrow; Teri Perl
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:  Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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.
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Genre/Form: Biographisches Nachschlagewerk
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Charlene Morrow; Teri Perl
ISBN: 0313291314 9780313291319
OCLC Number: 36768082
Description: xv, 302 p. : ports. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Maria Gaetana Agnesi --
Andrea Bertozzi --
Lenore Blum --
Sylvia Bozeman --
Marjorie Lee Browne --
Leone Burton --
Fan King Chung --
Ingrid Daubechies --
Emilie de Breteuil du Chatelet --
Etta Zuber Falconer --
Joan Feigenbaum --
Elizabeth Fennema --
Herta Taussig Freitag --
Sophie Germain --
Evelyn Boyd Granville --
Mary Gray --
Gloria Conyers Hewitt --
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper --
Rhonda Hughes --
Joan Hutchinson --
Hypatia --
Nancy Kopell --
Sofya Korvin-Krukovskaya Kovalevskaya --
Christine Ladd-Franklin --
Anneli Lax --
Gilah Chaya Vanderhoek Leder --
Emma Trotskaya Lehmer --
Ada Augusta Byron Lovelace --
Vivienne Malone-Mayes --
Dusa Waddington McDuff --
Marie-Louise Michelsohn --
Cathleen Synge Morawetz --
Emmy Noether --
Karen Parshall --
Bernadette Perrin-Riou --
Harriet Pollatsek --
Cheryl Praeger --
Mina Spiegel Rees --
Ida Rhodes --
Julia Bowman Robinson --
Judith Roitman --
Mary Ellen Rudin --
Mary Beth Ruskai --
Cora Sadosky --
Alice Turner Schafer --
Doris Wood Schattschneider --
Charlotte Angas Scott --
Marjorie Wikler Senechal --
Lesley Milman Sibner --
Mary Fairfax Grieg Somerville --
Pauline Sperry --
Alicia Boole Stott --
Olga Taussky-Todd --
Jean Taylor --
Chuu-Lian Terng --
Karen Uhlenbeck --
Marion Walter --
Sylvia Young Wiegand --
Grace Chisholm Young.
Responsibility: edited by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl.

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"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.

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