In Celebration of Women's History Month: Historical Women in Mathematics with Michael Lanstrum, Cuyahoga Community College
“Historical Women in Mathematics” will be a non-technical talk on some of the patterns found in the lives of women who have made significant contributions to what Gauss called “the queen of the sciences.”
Historically, the women considered range from Hypatia of Alexandria (370 – 415) to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (1906 – 1992). Particular attention will be given to the life and mathematics of Hypatia – the first woman in mathematics of whom we have considerable knowledge, and who said of herself, “I am wedded to the truth.”
