Women becoming mathematicians : creating a professional identity in post-World War II America /

"Women Becoming Mathematicians looks at the lives and careers of thirty-six of the approximately two hundred women who earned Ph. D.'s in mathematics from American institutions from 1940 to 1959. During this period, American mathematical research enjoyed an unprecedented expansion, fueled...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Murray, Margaret Anne Marie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Women mathematicians > United States.
Mathématiciennes > États-Unis.
MATHEMATICS > Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS > Reference.
MATHEMATICS > Essays.
Women mathematicians.
Mathematics - General.
Mathematics.
Physical Sciences & Mathematics.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Women mathematicians and the World War II transition
  • 2. Women mathematicians Ph. D's of the 1940s and 1950s
  • 3. Family background and early influences
  • 4. High school and college
  • 5. Graduate school and the pursuit of the Ph. D
  • 6. Interweaving a career and a life
  • 7. Teaching, research, and the question of identity
  • 8. Dimensions of personal and professional success.

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