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Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE FRS FRSE (17 December 1900 – 3 April 1998) [1] was a British mathematician. She was one of the pioneers of what would later become known as chaos theory . [ 2 ] Along with J. E. Littlewood , Cartwright saw many solutions to a problem which would later be seen as an example of the butterfly effect .
Mary Leontius Schulte (1901–2000), American nun, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics Jennifer Schultens (born 1965), American low-dimensional topologist and knot theorist Marie-Hélène Schwartz (1913–2013), French mathematician known for her work on characteristic numbers of spaces with singularities
1966: American mathematician Mary L. Boas published Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, which was still widely used in college classrooms as of 1999. [48] [49] [50] 1968: Mary Cartwright of Britain became the first woman to be given the De Morgan Medal, the London Mathematical Society’s premier award. [51] [45]
The LMS was used as a model for the establishment of the American Mathematical Society in 1888. Mary Cartwright was the first woman to be President of the LMS (in 1961–62). [1] The Society was granted a royal charter in 1965, a century after its foundation.
The De Morgan Medal is a prize for outstanding contribution to mathematics, awarded by the London Mathematical Society. The Society's most prestigious award, it is given in memory of Augustus De Morgan, who was the first President of the society. It is awarded every three years, usually to a mathematician living and working in the United Kingdom.
Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge — Canada's premier national mathematics competition open to any student with an interest in and grasp of high school math and organised by Canadian Mathematical Society; Canadian Mathematical Olympiad — competition whose top performers represent Canada at the International Mathematical Olympiad
See Angela Cartwright through the years: As she hit her teenage years, Angela continued working steadily. She most famously played Penny Robinson on "Lost In Space." But after tying the knot in ...
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, ... Through a series of rigorous arguments employing deductive reasoning, ...