scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1232822

MaRDI QIDQ4223142zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors

Publication date 15 December 1998

zbMATH Keywords

Emmy NoetherJulia RobinsonOlga Taussky-Todd

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to history and biography (01-02) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

Review text

A collection of 59 biographical essays on women who have made significant contributions to mathematics. One from antiquite (Hypatia), a dozen from XVIII and XIX centuries (including Emilie du Chatelet, Maria Agnesi, Sophie Germain, Sofya Kovalevskaya), most from this century (including Emmy Noether, Julia Robinson, Olga Taussky-Todd). Majority are contemporary mathematicians (40 still living), and a mathematician denotes here a researcher or a distinguished teacher of mathematics at the university level. Most of presented persons come from the West, predominantly USA (46 names). Each essay offers a short life story (major events, obstacles faced, career milestones) followed by an attempt to present mathematical research in non-technical terms, and completed with a portrait and a list of selected works of and about the person. This highly readable account, designed for the general public, is to be recommended particularly for secondary school students. \{Reviewer's remark: Publishers claim that the names are taken ``from around the world, but it stays in sharp contrast with the complete absence of names from behind the apparently fallen ``iron curtain who are many, e.g. Nina Bari (1901-1961), Stefania Braun (1908-1943), Wanda Szmielew (1918-1976), Helena Rasiowa (1917-1994), Zofia Mikołajska-Mlak (1923-1993), to quote only a few of those who already passed away\}.

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