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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. London Mathematical Society - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Timeline of women in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. List of women in mathematics - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. List of mathematics competitions - Wikipedia

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    American Mathematics Contest 8 (AMC->8), formerly the American Junior High School Mathematics Examination (AJHSME) Math League (grades 4–12) MATHCOUNTS; Mathematical Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools (MOEMS) Noetic Learning math contest (grades 2-8) Pi Math Contest (for elementary, middle and high school students)

  7. 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

  8. Transgender weightlifter smashes women's world records ...

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    Mary Gregory, an American powerlifter and strength coach, took to Instagram on Sunday to announce she had gone "9 for 9" at the competition and broken four women's world records: Masters world ...

  9. List of United States regional mathematics competitions

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    [IUPUI High School Math Contest] (grades 9–12) Huntington University Math Competition (grades 6–12) Indiana Math League; IASP Academic Super Bowl; Rose-Hulman High School Mathematics Contest (grades 9–12) Trine University Math Competition