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Women in mathematics
Please ,can somebody enumerate
three mathematicians ?
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Euler
Gauss
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Pitagora
Cauchy
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Newton
Lagrange
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Riemann....
Please,can somebody enumerate
three female mathematicians?
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Teano
Hipatija
Maria Gaetana Agnes
Marie Sophie Germain
Mary Everest Boole
Sofija Vasiljevna Kovalevska
Emmy Amalie Noether
Louise Hay
Julia Bauman Robinson
Why aren’t names of female
mathematicians famous like names
of male mathematicians?
Here are some answeres :
Men first were hunters and they
evolved the ability to oriente in
space.
People felt that it is not
appropriate to see a woman
deals with math or any other
science.
Some women were killed
because of their teaching.
Some women didn’t have enough
money to go to school.
A lot of them were daughters of
famous mathematicians.
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Now I am going to tell you
something about female
mathematicians who succeded
in their plans and had a huge
influence on development of
mathematics.
Teano
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Teano was born in Greece in
fifth century before Christ.
Pythagoras wife.
dealed with mathematics,
physics and medicine for
children.
After Pythagoras death she kept
Pythagorean School .
Principle of the golden mean
was her famous work.
Hipatija
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Hipatija was born in Alexandria.
Teon’s daughter ( famous
mathematician Teon had a
huge influence on her).
Some people think that he
wanted to raise a perfect human
being.
She wrote comments on famous
works such as Arithmetic of
Diophantus, Appolonius’ conics.
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Her most known work was about
conics which later contributed to
the development of parabola,
hyperbola and ellipse.
Some believe that she and her
father wrote a new edition of
Euclid’s Elements.
At the end of fourth century
broke a conflict between two
religious.
Cyril,leader of Christians, and
Orestes,the civil governor, were
rivals. In 415. Hipatija was killed
because she was Orestes friend.
She was stoned to death,taken to
pieces and burned.
Some believe that she was killed
because people were jealous
and couldn't stand a fact that
woman can be so intelligent and
powerful.
Maria Gaetana Agnes
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Maria Gaetana Agnes was an
italian mathematician.
the oldest of twenty one
children
wanted to enable women to
have education like men
wrote Instituzioni analitiche-the
main textbook of mathematical
analysis
best known for curve called
Versiera
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Versiera equation :
Surface under the curve is πa2
and is four time bigger then
surface of the circle with centre
in point (0,a/2) and radius a/2.
Sophie
Germain
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born in France
was thrilled with legend of
Archimedes death and decided
to study math
used pseudonym M.LeBlanc
while she was communicating
with Lagrange and Gauss
had a big influence in proving a
Great theorem of Fermot
prime numbers p for which
number 2p+1 is also prime are
named after her
Today many female
mathematicians work in different
parts of mathematics. They are
organized in group called The
Association for Women in
Mathematics - AWM . The aim
is to encourage women to
engage in math .