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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 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
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
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 ...
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]
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.
Stallard won the Whitehead Prize in 2000, [7] and describes this point as the moment when she became confident in her mathematical research abilities. [5]Stallard was the chair of the Women in Mathematics Committee of the London Mathematical Society from 2006 to 2015, and in 2015 she was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her work in support of women in mathematics.
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