Women in mathematics

Author(s)

• Osen, Lynn M.

Bibliographic Information

Women in mathematics

Lynn M. Osen

MIT Press, c1974

Contents of Works

• Introduction
• History
• Hypatia, 370-415
• From the Dark Ages to the Renaissance: the "Witch" of Agnesi, 1718-1799
• Emilie de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet, 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
• Bibliography: p. 173-178

Details

• NCID: BA28050596
• ISBN:
  • 026215014X
• LCCN: 73019506
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 185 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA28
  • DC : 510/.92/2
  • DC : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women mathematicians -- Biography