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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: MARY GOLDA ROSS, 1908-2008. Mary Golda Ross was the first Native American woman to become an engineer. The great-granddaughter of a Cherokee Chief, she grew up
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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: MARIA AGNESI, 1718-1799. First woman to be appointed to a maths professorship (University of Bologna). Child prodigy who spoke 7 languages by age 11. Though she
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HOW 2020 WAS A MASSIVE TRIUMPH IN ONE SMALL PLACE: A THREAD. On January 1, 2020, I started answering the problems from the Mathematics 2020 calendar. This is a calendar
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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. JULIA ROBINSON, 1919-1985. Best known for solving Hilbert's Tenth Problem, Julia Robinson had a long and impressive mathematical career. She was born in St. Louis
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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. HELEN QUINN, born 1943. A native of Australia, Quinn was encouraged to pursue maths by a high school teacher, but faced obstacles as a maths-loving
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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DOROTHY VAUGHAN, 1910-2008. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Vaughan graduated from Wilberforce University with a degree in mathematics at age 19. Taught maths at segregated
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THE WISDOM OF DR. EUPHEMIA HAYNES. These scans, provided by @CUAarchives of @CatholicUniv, allow us all to read an address given to mathematics teachers by Dr. Euphemia Haynes, the first
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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: MARGARET HAMILTON, born 1936. Software engineer who worked on the Apollo missions, founder of two software companies, author of over 130 papers. Hamilton earned a degree
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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. GLADYS MAE WEST, born 1930. Pioneer responsible for the mathematics behind GPS. Growing up in rural Virginia, she saw how hard the lives of her
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GREAT WOMAN OF MATHEMATICS: DR. KAREN UHLENBECK, born 1942. First woman to win the Abel Prize, the "Nobel Prize of Maths." A founder of modern geometric analysis, her work has
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