Comments on: Five Historic Female Mathematicians You Should Know

By: Ahad Sarkar

Ahad Sarkar — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:16:35 +0000

I never know the five women mathematicians,now I am proud of them.They are five star in the mathematician world

By: Gianna

Gianna — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:39:12 +0000

thanks for the reasearch now i can do my math report thanks

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By: Jill Tuner

Jill Tuner — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:54:27 +0000

Unfortunetly most of them passed away in their early ages.

By: David

David — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 07:35:19 +0000

Honestly, the only two really important enough to mention them are Kovalevskaya and Noether

By: Zolinda T

Zolinda T — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:22:18 +0000

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By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:30:14 +0000

@Jake: women, not girls.

Great article. Why only 5? Expand it to 10, 20, to 100. This is wonderful stuff, and the world needs more of it.

By: David Aleman

David Aleman — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:42:07 +0000

The list should be expanded to include Grace Murray Hopper, US Navy.

By: Laura McHugh

Laura McHugh — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:34:19 +0000

If you’re interested in more female mathematicians (historic and contemporary), check out The Mathematical Association of America’s flickr gallery http://www.flickr.com/photos/maaorg/sets/72157626093266357/.

By: Ken Fan

Ken Fan — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:38:44 +0000

If you’re interested in contemporary women in mathematics, like Ingrid Daubechies, one resource is Girls’ Angle, a nonprofit math club for girls based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Nearly every issue of the Girls’ Angle Bulletin has an interview with a woman in math and every other month, a new Women In Mathematics video appears.

By: Allen Esterson

Allen Esterson — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:10:52 +0000

A clarification on Emmy Noether. It was at Gottingen in 1915-1918 that she produced the mathematical theorems that refined the foundations of general relativity. In this work she collaborated with David Hilbert and Felix Klein, not Einstein. In fact Einstein’s celebrated formulation of general relativity published in 1915 owed nothing to these theorems. On receiving one of Noether’s 1918 papers Einstein wrote appreciatively to Hilbert about her “a very interesting paper on invariants”: “I’m impressed that such things can be understood in such a general way.”

See:

http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/articles/noether.asg/noether.html

Gerald Holton, *Physics the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond*, pp. 247-248.

Abraham Pais, *Subtle is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein*, pp. 259, 274, 276.

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By: Sethanne Howard

Sethanne Howard — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:27:08 +0000

It is good you are highlighting women in scienc; however, Hypatia was not the earliest mathematician. Please check the resources available, such as the web site (wwww.astronomy.ua.edu/4000WS) or the book “The Hidden Giants” available from amazon. The earliest one I know of lived in 2334 BCE. Her name was En Heduanna.

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By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:12:44 +0000

If they added another girl then it wouldn’t be Five Female Mathematicians…

It would be 6 foo