![]() ![]() ![]() The data presented about each of the 228 individual members of the group will support additional study and analysis by scholars in a large number of disciplines. Extended biographies and bibliographical information are available from the companion website for the book: The material will be of interest to researchers, teachers, and students in mathematics, history of mathematics, history of science, women's studies, and sociology. Rent or Buy Pioneering Women in American Mathematics - 9780821843765 by Green, Judy for as low as 42.91 at. They show that there were many more women earning PhD's in mathematics before 1940 than is commonly thought. (History of Mathematics, 34.) xviii + 349 pp., illus., tables, bibl. ![]() The authors examine family backgrounds, education, careers, and other professional activities. Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre1940 Ph.D.s. The book contains an extended introductory essay, as well as biographical entries for each of the 228 women in the study. By reconstructing as complete a picture as possible of this group of women, Green and LaDuke reveal insights into the larger scientific and cultural communities in which they lived and worked. This book is the result of a study in which the authors identified all of the American women who earned PhD's in mathematics before 1940, and collected extensive biographical and bibliographical information about each of them. More than 14 percent of the PhD's awarded in the United States during the first four decades of the twentieth century went to women, a proportion not achieved again until the 1980s. ![]()
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