Women in Mathematics

The Addition of Difference

Author: Claudia Henrion
ISBN: 9780253211194

"... a wonderful addition to any mathematics teacher's professional bookshelf." --The Mathematics Teacher "The individual biographies themselves make for enthralling, often inspiring, reading... this volume should be compelling reading for women mathematics students and professionals. A fine addition to the literature on women in science... Highly recommended." --Choice "... it makes an important contribution to scholarship on the interrelations of gender, mathematics, and culture in the U.S. in the second half of the twentieth century." --Notices of the AMS "Who is the audience for this book? Certainly women who are interested in studying mathematics and women already in mathematics who have become discouraged will find much to interest and help them. Faculty who teach such women would put it to good use. But it would be a loss to relegate the book to a shelf for occasional reference to an interested student or beginning mathematician. Everyone in the mathematics community in which ea

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publish Date: 1997

Subjects: Mathematics / General, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: STEM)