Women in mathematics /

• Main Author: Osen, Lynn M.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �1974.
• Subjects: Women mathematicians > Biography.; MATHEMATICS > History & Philosophy.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.; Women mathematicians.; Women mathematicians, 370-1935 Biographies; Electronic books.; Biography.

Examines the lives and scholarly endeavors of women who have profoundly affected mathematical thought since antiquity.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• History
• Hypatia, 370-415
• From the Dark Ages to the Renaissance: the "Witch" of Agnesi, 1718-1799
• Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise du Ch�atelet, 1706-1749
• Caroline Herschel, 1750-1848
• Sophie Germain, 1776-1831
• Mary Fairfax Somerville, 1780-1872
• Sonya Corvin-Krukovsky Kovalevsky, 1850-1891
• Emmy (Amalie) Noether, 1882-1935
• The golden age of mathematics
• The feminine mathtique.