For better or for worse? Collaborative couples in the sciences
Collections of articles of miscellaneous specific interest (00B15) Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to history and biography (01-06) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Sociology (and profession) of mathematics (01A80)
Articles by various authors examine couples (mostly, but not exclusively, husband-and-wife, and all no longer alive) who collaborated, in some form or other, on scientific work. Most of the case studies come from biology, chemistry, and social sciences. Mathematics and mathematicians receive short shrift, making just a handful of brief appearances -- in one of which Mary Somerville is identified as a ``mathematics expositor.
- Mister Mary Somerville: husband and secretary
- Marriages, couples, and the making of mathematical careers
- Brenda Stoessiger and Roy Clapham—a statistical match in the time of Pearson and Fisher
- Married women in British statistics before the 1960s
- ``Dear Miss Seely: Dr. Caroline Seely, Oswald Veblen, and the transformation of American mathematics
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