World Women in Mathematics 2018 Proceedings of the First World Meeting for Women in Mathematics (WM)² /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Araujo, Carolina (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Benkart, Georgia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Praeger, Cheryl E. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Tanbay, Betül (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Association for Women in Mathematics Series, 20
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Social sciences.; History.; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

The first World Meeting for Women in Mathematics - (WM)² - was a satellite event of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. With a focus on Latin America, the first (WM)² brought together mathematicians from all over the world to celebrate women mathematicians, and...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1. The First World Meeting for Women in Mathematics
• 1. Algebra and geometry in the study of enzymatic Cascades
• 2. A survey of semidefinite programming approaches to the generalized problem of moments and their error analysis
• 3. How Mathematics is changing the world
• 4. Metastability: a brief introduction through three Examples
• Part 2. The gender gap in mathematical and natural sciences from a historical Perspective
• 5. The Historical Context of the Gender Gap in Mathematics
• 6.Initiatives of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics to reduce the Gender Gap in Physics
• 7. A data analysis of women's trails among ICM speakers.