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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. 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

  4. Deaths in April 1998 - Wikipedia

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    Alberto Calderón, 77, Argentinian mathematician. [77] Fernande Caroen, 77, Belgian freestyle swimmer and Olympian. [78] Fred Davis, 84, English snooker and billiards player. [79] Marie-Louise Meilleur, 117, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest living person at the time of her death. [80] Ronald Millar, 78, English actor, scriptwriter, and ...

  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 Cambridge mathematicians - Wikipedia

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    Appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, at site of University of Greenwich Mathematics Department. Dame Mary Cartwright, fellow and Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge; J. W. S. Cassels, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1949–1984; Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics 1967-1986

  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. List of female fellows of the Royal Society - Wikipedia

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    Mary Cartwright: Mathematics: Awarded the Sylvester Medal in 1964 [17] [18] Dorothy Hodgkin: Biochemistry: Awarded the Royal Medal in 1956, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964, and the Copley Medal in 1976; delivered the Tercentenary Lecture in 1960 and the Bakerian Lecture in 1972 [19] [20] Muriel Robertson: Protozoology, bacteriology [21 ...

  9. Timeline of women in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    1949: American mathematician Gertrude Mary Cox became the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute. [36] Also, Maria Laura Lopes obtained her PhD in Mathematics, being the first woman to obtain the title in Brazil. 1951: Mary Cartwright of Britain became the first female president of the Mathematical Association. [37] [33]