Biographies of Women Mathematical Scientists
and History of Women in Mathematical Sciences
Abstracts

Delores Wilkins, 61, a mathematics teacher at Langston Hughes Middle School in Reston VA who was a past president of the Reston chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, died May 11, 1995

Article on math prodigy Ruth Lawrence.

Interview on Mary Ellen Rudin conducted an International Congress of Mathematics in Berkeley, CA in 1986. Many photographs accompany the article.

Includes suggested topics for undergraduate math club programs and brief biographical information.

Memorium of U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Hopper, who died January 1, 1992 and was co-inventor of the computer language COBOL.

Sophie Germain (1776-1831) of France worked in both number theory and physics. Her work in physics on the modes of vibration of elastic surfaces won a competition sponsored by the French Academy of Science in 1809.

This book is the outcome of the Women and Mathematics Topic Area at the 6th International Congress on Mathematics Education held in Budapest, Hungary, in 1988.

The contributions of Emmy Noether to particle physics fall into two categories. One is given under the rubric of Noether's theorem, and the other may be described as her important contributions to modern mathematics. These will be discussed along with an historical account of her work and what its impact has been. In addition a brief biography is given.

A detailed list of 70 women mathematicians, providing dates of birth and death, nationality, areas of interest, and related reference material. Includes extensive index of references in biographic dictionaries, encyclopedias, books, and periodical literature.

A collection of biographies of 43 women mathematicians with a foreword by Alice Schafer, introduction by Jeanne LaDuke, and appendices giving biographees in chronological order by birthdate and by place of origin, highest education, place of work, and field of mathematical work. Also has an appendix on references in biographical dictionaries and other collections.

Biographical sketch of a black women mathematician.

Biographical sketches of Hypatia, Maria Agnesi, Emile du Chatelet, Mary Somerville, Sophie Germain, and Sofia Kovalevskaya.

Profiles of 22 notable female mathematicians and scientists.

Discusses the work of Alicia Boole Stott.

Interview with the first woman president of AAAS.

BIography of Emmy Noether, the mother of modern algebra.

Short biographies of Agnesi, Germain, Somerville, Kovalevskaya, and Noether.

Reprint of article that appeared in the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society in March of 1981.

Focus on Charlotte Angas Scott, Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, Olive Clio Hazlett, Mildred Leonora Sanderson, Christin Ladd-Franklin, Winifred Edgerton Merrill, Mary Winston Newson, Mary Emily Sinclari, and Mayme Irwin Logsdon.

Includes short professional profiles of a dozen mathematicians.

Includes biographical skectches on Ada Lovelace, Sofia Kovalevskaia, Emmy Noether, and Julia Bowman Robinson.

Includes reproductions and comments on the correspondence between Lovelace and Babbage.

Short biographies of Hypatia, Maria Agnesi, Sophie Germain, Sophia Kovalevskaya, and Emmy Noether.

Short biographies of Hypatia, Maria Agnesi, Sophie Germain, Sophia Kovalevskaya, and Emmy Noether.

Discusses notable black American mathematicians including Gloria COnyers Hewitt.

Includes 21 brief biographies.

Includes 21 brief biographies with photographs. Reprint of a 1981 article in the American Mathematical Monthly.

Autobiographical nove, first published in 1889.

Reprint of the 1894 article in Century.

Collection of papers presented at a conference orgenaized by MOIFEM (Mouvement international poiur les femmes et l'enseignment de la mathematique) in Montreal, June 6-7, 1986.

This memorial article offers reminiscences about Olga Taussky-Todd written by students and colleagues. The article discusses her mathematical work and includes a biographical sketch.

Contains a disccussin on the life and work of Mary Everest Boole and Alicia Boole Stott

Article on Maria Agnesi

Obituary of Nina Karlovna Bari.

Detailed biography of the Marquise du Chatelet, based on manuscripts and published materials.

A personal account of how one woman became a mathematician despite alienation and lack of support.

Biographical sketches of Hypatia, Maria Agnesi, Emilie de Breteuil, Caroline Herschel, Sophie Germain, Mary Fairfax Somerville, Sonya Kovalevsky, and Emmy Noether. Also includes chapters entitled History, The Golden Age of Mathematics, and The Feminine Mathtique.

Discusses Hypatia, Chatelet, Agnesi, Germain, Somerville, Lovelace, Kovalevskaya, Young, and Noether.

Discusses Somerville, Lovelace, Kovalevsky, Boole, Noether, Blum, Granville, Montalvo, Paisano, and Pappas.

Autobiography of Julia Robinson, the first female mathematician elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman president of the American Mathematical Society.

Summarizes the lives of Hypatia, Emilie du Chatelet, Maria Agnesi, Sophie Germain, Mary Somervilee, and Ada Lovelace.

Reprint of 1981 article in the Mathematical Chronicle. Summarizes the lives of Hypatia, Emilie du Chatelet, Maria Agnesi, Sophie Germain, Mary Somervilee, and Ada Lovelace.

Letters of the first programmer, Ada Lovelace.

Memorium in honor of the mother of aabstract algebra.

Biographical sketch of 1893 mathematics student Mary Frances Winston.

Biographical sketch of mathematician Grace Chisolm Young by her granddaugher, mathematician Sylvia Wiegand.

Syvlia Wiegand chronicles the life of her mathematical grandparents, Grace Chisolm and William Henry Young.

Obituary of Carol Karp