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  2. Mary Cartwright - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Deaths in April 1998 - Wikipedia

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    Mary Cartwright, 97, British mathematician. [11] Elmer Iseler, 70, Canadian choir conductor and choral editor. [12] Givi Kartozia, 69, Georgian middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion. [13] Charles Lang, 96, American cinematographer (Some Like It Hot, A Farewell to Arms, Sabrina), Oscar winner , pneumonia. [14]

  4. List of female scientists in the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    Mary L. Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician [6] Amanda Chessell, British computer scientist; Ingrid Daubechies (born 1954), Belgian mathematician (Wavelets – first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics) Tatjana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa (1876–1964), Russian/Dutch mathematician

  5. John Edensor Littlewood - Wikipedia

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    John Edensor Littlewood FRS (9 June 1885 – 6 September 1977) was a British mathematician. He worked on topics relating to analysis, number theory, and differential equations and had lengthy collaborations with G. H. Hardy, Srinivasa Ramanujan and Mary Cartwright.

  6. List of women in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Mary Cartwright (1900–1998), British mathematician, one of the first to analyze a dynamical system with chaos; María Andrea Casamayor (1700–1780), only 18th-century Spanish scientist whose work is still extant; Bettye Anne Case, American mathematician and historian of mathematics

  7. 1900 in science - Wikipedia

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    December 17 – Mary Cartwright (died 1998), English mathematician, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos. [18] Robina Addis (died 1986), English psychiatric social worker. [19] Margaret Altmann (died 1984), German-American biologist. [20] Ernest Gibbins (killed 1942), English entomologist.

  8. Overlooked (obituary feature) - Wikipedia

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    The feature was introduced on March 8, 2018, for International Women's Day, when the Times published fifteen obituaries of such "overlooked" women, and has since become a weekly feature in the paper. The project was created by Amisha Padnani, the digital editor of the obituaries desk, [1] and Jessica Bennett, the paper's gender editor. In its ...

  9. Category:Mathematicians from New York City - Wikipedia

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