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Ana Millán Gasca (born 1964), Spanish historian of science and scholar of mathematics education; Alison Miller, first American female gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad, three-time Elizabeth Lowell Putnam award winner; Laura Miller, American mathematician, applies fluid dynamics to insect flight and jellyfish propulsion
There, in 1957–1958, she was awarded a National Science Faculty Fellowship, one of only 100 awarded in the inaugural year of the program. [3] She completed her doctorate at the University of Texas in July 1960. [3] Her dissertation, in mathematics education, was An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Collegiate General Mathematics Course. [7]
Influential women pioneers in medicine, science and math. Ann Preston, 1813-1872. American physician who worked to educate women about their bodies. Mary Edwards Walker, 1832-1919. Surgeon ...
2012: The Working Committee for Women in Mathematics, Chinese Mathematical Society (WCWM-CMS) was founded; it is a national non-profit academic organization in which female mathematicians who are engaged in research, teaching, and applications of mathematics can share their scientific research through academic exchanges both in China and abroad ...
Retrieved from the World Wide Web, Agnes Scott College's "Biographies of Women Mathematicians" Web Site on 28 July 2004. "MiSciNet's Ancestors of Science, Marjorie Lee Browne," Science, September 10, 2004. Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl (eds), Notable Women in Mathematics, a Biographical Dictionary, Greenwood Press, 1998. pp. 17–21.
In 1903, restrictions on women's full enrollment in Bavarian universities were rescinded. [28] Noether returned to Erlangen and officially reentered the university in October 1904, declaring her intention to focus solely on mathematics. She was one of six women in her year (two auditors) and the only woman in her chosen school. [29]
1970: Mina Rees became the first female president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [13] 1971: Mary Ellen Rudin constructed the first Dowker space. [14] The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) was founded. It is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active ...
Minerva Cordero Braña [1] [2] is a Puerto Rican mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington.She is also the university's Senior Associate Dean for the College of Science, where she is responsible for the advancement of the research mission of the college. [3]