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  1. AMS Notices Special Issue on Women in Mathematics, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 38 no. 7 (1991), 701-754.
  2. Another Kovalevskaya Book, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 15 no. 2 (March-April 1985), 8.
  3. Black and Female: Vivienne Malone Mays, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 5 no. 6 (September-October 1975), 4-6.
  4. Black pioneers in mathematics, MAA Focus 1991 Jan-Feb.
  5. BU Math Professor’s Life Filled with Firsts (Vivienne Malone Mays), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 4 (January-February 1986), 8-9.
  6. Cathleen Morawetz, First Woman to Head a Mathematics Institute, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 1, (January-February 1985), 7-8.
  7. Death Notice: Lillian R. Casey, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 5 no. 3 (April 1975), 2.
  8. Death Notice: Sylvia Pines, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 15 no. 4 (July-August 1985), 6.
  9. Deceased: Ruth Moufang, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 8 no. 1 (1978), 2.
  10. Emmy Noether Lecturer, 1987: Joan S. Birman, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 17 3 (May-June 1987), 5.
  11. Captain Grace M. Hopper Honored at Brewster Academy, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 14 no. 2 (March-April 1984), 5.
  12. Grace Murray Hopper, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 3 no. 5, (September 1973), 8-9.
  13. In Memoriam: Carol Karp, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 2 no. 5 (September 1972), 6.
  14. In Memoriam: Dolores Spikes (1937-2015), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 47 no. 1 (January-February 2017), 18.
  15. In Memoriam: Dorothy Maharam Stone (1917-2014), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 47 no. 1 (January-February 2017), 18 - 19.
  16. Pelageya Yakolevna Kochian: On Her 80th Birthday, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 12 no. 1, (January-February 1982), 9-12.
  17. Kovalevskaia Symposium, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 4 (July-August 1985), 4-5; vol 15, no. 5 (September-October 1985), 5-6.
  18. The Mathematics of Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 65(16), 2018, 764 - 778.
  19. Mina Rees Library Dedicated, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 1 (January-February 1986), 7.
  20. Obituary: Helene Braun, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 5 (September-October 1986), 2.
  21. Obituary: Violet B. Haas, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 4 (July-August 1986), 3.
  22. Obituary: Edna E. Kramer-Lassar, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 14, no. 6 (November-December 1984), 5-6.
  23. Picture of Emmy (Noether), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 5 (September 1972), 9.
  24. Women Honored (Karen E. Mackey), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 11, no. 5 (September-October 1981), 7-9.
  25. Profile of AWM Members: Ann Page, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 2 (April 1974), 9.
  26. Profiles of Women in Mathematics - The Emmy Noether Lectures, Association for Women in Mathematics
  27. Julia Robinson:President of the AMS, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 12, no. 1, (January-February 1982), 2.
  28. Julia Robertson: Functional equations in arithmetic, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter (1988), 2-3.
  29. Ruskai Named Science Scholar, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 13 no. 3 (May/June 1983), 10.
  30. Sister Helen Sullivan, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 14 no. 5 (September/October 1984), 6.
  31. Schools courting teen math whiz, The Register Guard (Eugene, OR), 89/1/9 (1989).
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  32. Special Issue on Women and Mathematics: A Critical Inquiry, Philosophia Mathematica 13/14 (1976/77).
  33. Thelma Estrin Named Director, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 14 no. 6, (November-December 1984), 7-8.
  34. Women Honored (Thelma Estrin), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 11, no. 5 (September-October 1981), 7-9.
  35. Women mathematicians before 1950, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter Newsletter, vol. 9 no. 4 (1979), 9-11.
  36. Women of Computer History: Forgotten Pioneers, The Institute, Wilmington, DE (1989).
  37. Math teacher Delores Wilkins dies at age 61, Washington Post, 1995, May 14, (1995) Sec B, p6 col4.
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  38. P. G. Abir-Am, Synergy or clash: Disciplinary and marital strategies in the career of mathematical biologist Dorothy Wrinch, in Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979, P. G. Abir-Am and D. Outram, Eds. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick (1987), 239-280.
  39. N. Agarwal, R. Shah, and G. Venkataraman, Maryam Mirzakhani: The Master Artist of Curved Surfaces, Resonance-Journal of Science Education, 23 no. 3, March 2018, 253-262.
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  40. M. G. Ainley, Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science, University of Toronto Press, Montreal (1990).
  41. D. Albers, G. L. Alexanderson, and C. Reid, More Mathematical People: Contemporary Conversations, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Boston (1990).
  42. D. J. Albers and C. Reid, An interview with Mary Ellen Rudin, College Mathematics Journal 19 no. 2 (1988), 114-137.
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  43. A.D. Aleksandrov, A.P. Oskolkov, N. Ural’tseva, and L.D. Faddeev, Ol’ga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (On Her Sixtieth Birthday), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 2 (March-April 1985) 12-20.
  44. G. L. Alexanderson, An Interview with Constance Reid, The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal, vol. 11, no. 4 (September 1980) 226-238.
  45. Ambrose, No Universal Constants: Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering, Temple University Press, 
  46. K. K. Anand, Cypra Cecilia Krieger and the human side of mathematics, in Despite the Odds-Essays on Canadian Women and Science, M. Ainley, Ed. Vehicule Press, 1990), 248-251.
  47. K. K. Anand, Hanna Neumann: A great woman mathematician from down under, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter 18 no. 1 (January-February 1988), 10-13.
  48. M. Anderson, The history of women and the history of statistics, Journal of Women's History 4 no. 1 (1992), 14-36.
  49. R. L. Anderson, Gertrude M. Cox---A modern pioneer in statistics, Biometrics 35 (1979), 3-7.
  50. D. Angluin, Lady Lovelace and the Analytical Engine, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 6 no. 1 (1976), 5-10.
  51. D. Angluin, Lady Lovelace and the Analytical Engine, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 6 no. 2 (1976), 6-8.
  52. R. C. Archibald, Women as Mathematicians and Astronomers, American Mathematical Monthly 25 no. 3 (1918), 136-139.
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  53. I. Asimov, Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, Doubleday (1982).
  54. S. Avdonin, Olga Arsen’evna Oleinik (1925 - 2001), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 32, no. 1 (Jan - Feb 2002), 7 - 8.
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  55. C. Avelsgaard, Women in mathematics: the silent minority, The Mathematical Intelligencer 10 no. 4 (1988), 32-34.
  56. J. Baum, The Calculating Passion of Ada Byron, Archon Books, Hamden, CT (1986).
  57. J. S. Birman, Ruth Lyttle Satter, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 20 2 (March/April 1990), 3-4.
  58. J. S. Birman, D. Haimo, S. Landau, B. Srinivasan, V. Pless, and J. E. Taylor, In her own words: Six mathematicians reflect on their lives and careers, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 38 no. 7 (1991), 702-706.
  59. L. Blum, A brief history of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents’ perspective, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 38 no. 7 (1991), 738-754.
  60. L. Blum, Remembering Julia Robinson, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 6 (November-December 1985), 2-3.
  61. L. Blum, Women in mathematics: an international perspective, eight years later, The Mathematical Intelligencer 9 no. 2 (1987), 28-32.
  62. L. Blum, Tatyana Velikanova, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter Newsletter, vol. 11, no. 3 (May/June 1981), 3-5.
  63. H. Bromberg, Grace Murray Hopper: A Remembrance, IEEE Software 9 no. 3 (1992), 103.
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  64. L. L. Bucciarelli and N. Dworsky, Sophie Germain: An Essay in the History of the Theory of Elasticity, 9, Reidel, Dordrecht (1980).
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  65. D. Buerk, Voices of Women Making Meaning in Mathematics, Journal of Education 167 no. 3 (1985).
  66. L. Burton, Gender and Mathematics: An International Perspective, Cassell Educational Ltd., Strand (1990).
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  67. N. Byers, The Life and Times of Emmy Noether; contributions of E. Noether to particle physics, presented at International Conference on The History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries in Particle Physics, Erice, Italy, (1994).
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  68. A. Cameron, Isidor of Miletua and Hypatia: On the editing of mathematical texts, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 31 (1990), 103-127.
  69. P. J. Campbell and L. S. Grinstein, Women and mathematics: a preliminary selected bibliography, Philosophia Mathematica 13/14 (1976-77), 171-203.
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  70. P. J. Campbell and L. S. Grinstein,Women of Mathematics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, New York (1987).
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  71. C. Cantwell, BU math professor’s life filled with firsts, AWM Newsletter 16 no. 4 (1986), 8-9.
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  72. M. L. Cartwright, Grace Chisholm Young, Journal London Mathematical Society 19 (1944), 185-191.
  73. M. L. Cartwright, Sheila Scott Macintyre, Journal London Mathematical Society 36 (1961), 254-256.
  74. B. A. Case (editor), Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (1883-1966): Colloquium Lecturer, 1927, Proceedings of the Symposium held on August 20, 1980 at Ann Arbor, MI, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 12, no. 4 (July/August 1982), 4-13.
  75. B. A. Case and A. M. Leggett, eds., Complexities: Women in Mathematics, Princeton University Press, 2005.
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  76. D. Charpentier, Women mathematicians, The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal, vol. 8, no. 2 (March 1977), 73-79.
  77. M. R. Chowdhury, Response to “Sofia Kovalevskaia and the mathematical community” by Ann Hibner Koblitz, The Mathematical Intelligencer 4 no. 8 (1986), 68-72.
  78. M. R. Chowdhury and A. H. Koblitz, Koblitz, Klein and Kovalevskaia, The Mathematical Intelligencer 8 no. 4 (1986), 68-72.
  79. W. G. Cochran, Gertrude Mary Cox 1900-1978, International Statistical Review 47 no. 1 (1979), 97-98.
  80. E. Colt, The Graceful Admiral (Grace Murray Hopper), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol 17, no. 1 (January-February 1987), 7-8.
  81. R. Cooke, Sonya Kovalevskaya’s Place in Nineteenth Century Mathematics, in The Legacy of Sonya Kovalevskaya: Proceedings of a Symposium, L. Keen, Ed. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI (1986), 17-51.
  82. J. L. Coolidge, Six Female Mathematicians, Scripta Mathematica 17 no. 1/2 (1951), 20-31.
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  83. M. P. Cooney, ed., Celebrating Women in Mathematics and Science, National Counctil of Teachers of Mathematics, 
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  84. H. S. M. Coxeter, Alicia Boole Stott in Women in Mathematics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook, L. Grinstsein and P Campbell, eds., Greenwood Press, 1987
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  85. P. G. Coxson, In Memory of Violet Bushwhick Hass, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 4 (July -Ausut 1986), 2.

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  86. A. Dahan-Dalmedico, Sophie Germain, Scientific American 265 (1991), 116-120.
  87. A. D. Dalmedico, Sophie Germain, Scientific Amercian December (1991), 117-122.
  88. R. Dan and P. J. Hilton, Mina Rees, in Mathematical People, D. J. Albers and G. J. Alexanderson, Eds. Birkhauser, Boston (1985), 256-267.
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  89. J. W. Dauben, The History of Mathematics From Antiquity to the Present: A Selected Bibliography, , Garland, New York (1985).
  90. S.S. Demidov, S. Petrova, and A. P. Yushkevich, Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakove: On the Occasion of Her 60th Birthday, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 14, no. 5 (September - October 1984), 16-19.
  91. C. de Pisan, The Book of the City of Ladies, Persea Books (1982).
  92. L. E. Dickson, A Tribute to Mildred Lenora Sanderson (reprinted from the American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 22, 1915) Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 4, no. 5 (August 1974); vol. 14, no. 4 (July/August 1984), 16.
  93. A. Dick, Emmy Noether, 1882-1935, Birkhauser, Boston (1981).
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  94. M.-L. DuBreil-Jacotin, Women Mathematicians, in Great Currents in Mathematical Thought, F. LeLionnais, Ed. Dover, New York (1971), 168-180.
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  95. M. Dzielska, Hypatia of Alexandria, 8, Harvard University Press (1995).
  96. W. C. Eells, American doctoral dissertations on mathematics and astronomy written by women in the nineteenth century, The Mathematics Teacher 50 no. 5 (1957), 374-376.
  97. H. G. Eggleston, Winifred L. C. Sargent, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 2 (1981), 173-176.
  98. H. G. Eggleston, Winifred L. C. Sargent, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 13 no. 1 (1983), 7-10.
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  99. Y. V. Egorov, A. Y. Ishlinskii, A. S. Kalashnikov, A. N. Kolmogorov, O. B. Lupanov, S. P. Novikov, Ol´ga Asen´vena Oleynik, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 18, no. 3 (May-June 1988), 17-20.
  100. C. Eisele, Lao Genevra Simons, Scripta Mathematica 1950 no. 16 (1950), 22-30.
  101. E. Falconer and L. Lorch, Vivienne Malone-Mayes: in memoriam, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter vol. 25 no. 6 (1995), 8.
  102. D. Farquhar and M.-R. Lynn,Women Sum It Up: Biographical Sketches of Women Mathematicians, Hazard Press, Christchurch (1989).
  103. D. D. Fenster and K. Parshall, Women in the American mathematical research community: 1891-1906, in The History of Modern Mathematics, Vol. 3: Images, Ideas, and Communities, 3, The History of Modern Mathematics, E. Knobloch and D. E. Rowe, Eds., 1982 ), 229-261.
  104. B. Friedman, Bringing knowledge of women mathematicians into the mathematics classroom, Mathematics and Computer Education 24 no. 3 (1990), 250-253.
  105. C. L. Franklin, Sophie Germain, an unknown mathematician, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 11, no. 3, (May-June 1981), 7-11.

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  106. L. Gaal, Julia Robinson’s Thesis, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 13, no. 3 (May-June 1986) 6-8.
  107. L. Gilbert and G. Moore, Grace Brewster Murray Hopper, mathematician and computer software designer known as the mother of COBOL, in Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Have Shaped Our Times, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1981, 58-63.
  108. J. R. Goodstein, Olga Taussky-Todd, Notices of the AMS, vol. 67 no. 3, 345 – 353.
  109. I. Grattan-Guinness, A Mathematical union: William Henry and Grace Chisolm Young, Annals of Science 29 no. 2 (1972), 105 – 186.
  110. M. Gray, In Memoriam: Grace Lonergan Lorch, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 1 (1975), 3.
  111. M. Gray, In Memoriam: Florence Black, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 1 (1975), 4.
  112. M. Gray, Sophie Germain, a bicentennial appreciation, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 6, no. 6 (1976), 10-14.
  113. M. Gray, Women in mathematics, American Mathematical Monthly 79 (1972), 475-479.
  114. M. W. Gray, The Association for Women in Mathematics - a personal view, The Mathematical Intelligencer 13 no. 4 (1991), 6-11.
  115. J. Green and J. LaDuke, Contributors to American Mathematics: An Overview and Selection, in Women of Science-Righting the Record, G. Kass-Simon and P. Farnes, Eds. Indiana University Press (1990).
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  116. J. Green and J. LaDuke, Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940s PhD’,History of Mathematics, Volume 34, American Mathematical Society/London Mathematical Society, 2009.
  117. J. Green and J. LaDuke, Women in American Mathematics: A Century of Contributions, in A Century of Mathematics in America, Part II, P. Duren, Ed. American Mathematical Society, 1989).
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  118. J. Green and J. LaDuke, Women in the American Mathematical Community: Pre-1940 Ph.D.’s, Mathematical Intelligencer 9 no. 1 (1987), 11-23.
  119. J. Green, J. LaDuke, and T. H. Perl, Women in mathematics, in The History of Mathematics From Antiquity to the Present: A Selected Bibliography, J. W. Dauben, Ed. Garland, New York (1985), 428-434.
  120. L. Grinstein and P. Campbell, Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 3 (September 1978), 14-16; vol. 8, no. 4 (November 1978), 4.
  121. L. Grinstein and P. Campbell, Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler: Her life and work, Historia Mathematica 1982 no. 9 (1982), 37-53.
  122. L. S. Grinstein, Some ‘forgotten’ women of mathematics: A Who was who, Philosophia Mathematica 13/14 (1976/77), 73-78.
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  123. D. W. Gurer, Pioneering women in computer science, Communications of the ACM 1 no. 38 (1995), 45-54.
  124. F. Hamel, An Eighteenth-Century Marquise: A Study of Emilie du Chatelet and Her Times, J. Pott, New York (1911).
  125. J. Sharman Harrelson, Remembering Connie Sharman, my mum, Chatham County Line, December 2014/January 2015 (Reprinted in the Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol 47, no. 1 (2017).
  126. L. Hay, How I became a mathematician (or how it was in the bad old days), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 19 no. 5 (1989), 8-10.
  127. H. Henderson, Modern Mathematicians, Facts on File, New York (1996).
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  128. D. Hoffleit, The Education of American Women Astronomers Before 1960, The American Association of Variable Star Observers, Cambridge (1994).
  129. N. Holt, Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars, Little, Brown &Co. ISBN 978-0-33892-9.
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  130. G. Hopper, The grand old lady of software, Newsweek 1983 May 9.
  131. G. Hopper, What lies ahead, Byte 1989 no. Jan (1989), 343-345.
  132. E. Hoyrup, Women and mathematics, science, and engineering: A partially annotated bibliography with emphasis on mathematics and with references on related topics, Skrifserie fra Roskilde Universitetsbiblioteck 4 (1978).
  133. D. J. Hurvich, Christine Ladd-Franklin, in Notable American Women 1607-1950, 2. Harvard University Press, 1971), 354-356.
  134. V. R. Huskey and H. D. Huskey, Lady Lovelace and Charles Babbage, Annals of the History of Computing 2 no. 4 (1980), 299-329.
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  135. J. P. Hutchinson, Remembering Alice Dickinson, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 17, no. 6 (Nov - Dec 1987), 16 - 17.
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  136. J. P. Hutchinson, L. Riddle, Dorothy McCoy (1903 - 2001), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter Newsletter vol. 32, no. 1 (Jan - Feb 2002), 8 - 9.
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  137. R. F. Iacobacci, Women of Mathematics, Arithmetic Teacher 17 no. 4 (1970), 316-324.
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  138. R. F. Iacobacci, Women of Mathematics, Mathematics Teacher 63 no. 4 (1970), 329-337.
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  139. C. M. Iltis, Madame du Chatelet's metaphysics and mechanics, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 8 (1977), 29-48.
  140. B. W. Jones and R. A. Rosenbaum, Louise Johnson Rosenbaum, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 12 no. 4 (July/August 1982), 16-19.
  141. P. S. Jones, Women in American mathematics-20th century, The Mathematics Teacher 50 no. 5 (1957), 376-378.
  142. A. Katok and S. Katok, Women in Soviet mathematics, Notices of the American Mathematical Society 40 no. 2 (1988), 108-116.
  143. L. Keen, Sonya Kowaleskaya--Her Life and Work, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 7, no. 2 (March-April 1977) 2-6.
  144. L. Keen, The Legacy of Sonya Kovalevskaya: Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, , American Mathematical Society, Providence (1986).
  145. E. F. Keller, A Feeling for the Organism: the Life and Work of Barbara McClintock, Freeman and Co. (1983).
  146. D. H. Kennedy, Little Sparrow: A Portrait of Sophia Kovalevsky, Ohio University Press, Athens, OH (1983).
  147. H. C. Kennedy, The witch of Agnesi exorcised, Mathematics Teacher 62 no. 6 (1969), 480-482.
  148. P. Kenschaft, Black Women in Mathematics in the United States, Journal of African Civilizations 1982 no. April (1982), 63-68.
  149. P. Kenschaft, An interview with Marguerite Lehr, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 11 no. 4 (January-February 1981), 4-7.
  150. P. Kenschaft, An interview with Marguerite Lehr: In Memoriam, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter 18 no. 2 (March-April 1988), 9-11.
  151. P. Kenschaft, Marjorie Lee Browne: In memoriam, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter vol. 10 no. 5 (September-October 1980), 8-11.
  152. P. Kenschaft, Why did Charlotte Scott succeed?, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 17 no. 2 (March/April 1987), 4-9.
  153. P. C. Kenschaft, Black men and women in mathematical research, Journal of Black Studies 18 no. 2 (1987), 170-190.
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  154. P. C. Kenschaft, Black women in mathematics in the United States, Journal of African Civilizations 4 no. 1 (1982), 63-83.
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  155. P. C. Kenschaft, Black women in mathematics in the United States, American Mathematical Monthly 88 no. 8 (1981), 592-604.
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  156. P. C. Kenschaft, Sofia Kovalevskaia: Biographies of a Mathematician, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 14, no. 5 (September-October 1984), 14-16.
  157. P. C. Kenschaft, Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931), in Women of Mathematics: A Biographic Sourcebook, L. S. Grinstein and P. Campbell, Eds. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT (1987).
  158. P. C. Kenschaft, Charlotte Angas Scott, 1858-1931, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 7 no. 6 (1977), 9-10; vol. 8 no. 1 (1978), 11-12.
  159. P. C. Kenschaft, Charlotte Angus Scott, 1858-1931, College Mathematics Journal 18 no. 2 (1987), 98-110.
  160. P. C. Kenschaft, Letter/Comments: Women in mathematics around 1900, Signs 7 no. 4 (1982), 906-909.
  161. P. C. Kenschaft, The students of Charlotte Angas Scott, Mathematics in College no. Fall 1982 (1982).
  162. P. C. Kenschaft, Women in Mathematics around 1900, Signs 7 no. 4 (1982), 906-909.
  163. O. Kenyon, 800 Years of Women's Letters, Penguin Books, (1982).
  164. C. Kimberling, Emmy Noether, Greatest Woman Mathematician, The Mathematics Teacher 75 no. 3 (1982).
  165. C. H. Kimberling, Emmy Noether, American Mathematical Monthly 79 no. 2 (1972), 136-149.
  166. C. Kingsley, Hypatia, E.P. Dutton & co., New York (1935).
  167. I. Kleiner, Emmy Noether: Highlights of her life and work, Enseignement Matematique 38 no. 1-2 (1992), 103-124.
  168. A. H. Koblitz, Careers and Home Life in the 1880s: The Choices of Mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaia, in Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science, 1789-1979, P. G. Abir-Am and D. Outram, Eds. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick (1987), 172-190.
  169. A. H. Koblitz, Changing Views of Sofia Kovalevskaia, in The Legacy of Sonya Kovalevskaya: Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, L. Keen, Ed. American Mathematical Soci ety, Providence (1986), 53-76.
  170. A. H. Koblitz, A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia: Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary, American Mathematical Society, Providence (1993).
  171. A. H. Koblitz, Elizaveta Fedorovna Litvinova (1845-1919)--Russian mathematician and pedagogue, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter vol. 14 no. 1 (1984), 13-17.
  172. A. H. Koblitz, A Few Words on Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850 - 1891), Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol 13, no. 2 (March-April 1983), 12-14.
  173. A. H. Koblitz, Sofia Kovalevskaia and the mathematical community, The Mathematical Intelligencer 6 no. 1 (1986), 20-29.
  174. A. H. Koblitz, Sofia Kovalevskaia--A Biographical Sketch, in The Legacy of Sonya Kovalevskaya: Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, L. Keen, Ed. American Mathematical Society, Providence (1986), 3-16.
  175. P. I. Kochian, A. Y. Ishlinsky, and Z. K. Sokolovskaya, Love and Mathematics: Sofya Kovalevskaya, Mir, Moscow (1985).
  176. G. B. Kolata, Cathleen Morawetz: The mathematics of waves, Science 206 no. Oct. 12 (1979).
  177. M. Kordos, M. Moszynska, L. Szczerba, J. Smólska (translator), Wanda Szmielew 1918 - 1976, Studia Logica, vol. XXXVI, no. 4, reprinted in Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter, vol. 10, no. 2 (March-April 1980), 5 - 8.
  178. S. Kovalevskaya, A Russian Childhood, Springer, New York (1978).
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  179. E. Kramer, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 1, C. C. Gillispie, Ed., , 75-77.
  180. E. Kramer, Six More Female Mathematicians, Scripta Mathematica 23 no. 1/4 (1957), 83-95.

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  181. C. Ladd-Frankline, Sophie Germain: An unknown mathematician, Century 48 (1894), 946-949.
  182. C. Ladd-Frankline, Sophie Germain: An unknown mathematician, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter vol. 11 no. 3 (1981), 7-11.
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  183. J. LaDuke, Scanlon to Deliver Noether Lecture, Association for Women in Mathematics Newsletter vol. 15, no. 1 (January/February 1985), 4-7.
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