Ada Augusta Lovelace

The worst thing that could ever occur in a person's life is the inability to be the person who they want to be and think about life the way they choose to think about life. I have experienced such situations in my own life, and, after reading about the female mathematician Sophie Germain, I found it inspirational--if not, comforting--to know that another woman in history experienced the same in her life. A woman of her own thought, Germain hid her mathematical studies from her parents under the threat of them kicking her out of the house. It is no argument that the legendary Marie-Sophie Germain has become such a revolutionary figure for not only women, but for the mathematical community as a whole.

During the 1800’s, there were not a lot of female scientists. Marie Curie became the first woman to receive a nobel prize, and also the first to receive two of them. She was a Polish-French physicist and chemist who discovered two elements and was famous for her work with radioactivity. She got her love of science from her father, a physics and mathematics teacher. She moved to Paris to further her education and there met her future husband, Pierre Curie, and took his place at Sorbonne when he passed away as the first women to hold that position. Those were not the only thing she accomplished as a female scientist in the 1800’s. Marie paved the way for many more female scientists in the future.

In this essay, we will discuss Caroline Herschel’s life and achievements. Herschel was an amazing woman, not least because of the period in which she worked. Her achievements were many, but we will focus on the difficulties she faced in making them. Advancements in both science and feminism were made due to Herschel. She was also a skilled mathematician. She certainly deserves to be recognized.

Equality of the sexes has been a point of contention in society for many centuries and indeed to this day it still is. Considering the rather harsh and rigid expectations of women in the past it seems even more amazing that there were those willing to listen to arguments on equality even if some may not have been aware that the ones making the arguments for equality were women and not men. Two such writers were Mary Astell and Judith Sargent Murray who were born just a few generations short of each other. But of course these women were also subject to their upbringing and religious affiliation, something some writers today would view as a hindrance to progress, but they viewed them not as a hindrances but as tools to justify their arguments.

Some women had the opportunity to learn about science usually from their fathers, and it would’ve been impossible at this time for a female to learn about science from anywhere other from their family members. These women were in the upper class, but weren’t allowed to get an education. Some of them became very successful such as Maria Merian who studied insects and Maria Winkelmann who was an astronomer. Maria even founded a comet, but her husband stole the work and took credit. Despite the fact that they did a good job with their observations, they weren’t accepted in the Science community. Maria didn’t have a degree from a university because she could never get in being a female. So when she applied to the Berlin Academy she was denied, because they feared that hiring a woman would change people’s views on their

“I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics”- Evelyn Boyd Granville. She was the second black woman to earn a Ph. D. Evelyn has worked very hard on her work and her life plans. She always excelled in math, which is how she got her Ph. D in mathematics. Her family always supported her, even her dad who wasn't there all the time when he and her mother got a divorce. Evelyn has one of the best families anyone could ask for.

He was now focusing on designing an “Analytic Engine”, which would be a machine that could perform calculations without user input. Ada immediately grasped the potential significance of such a machine and impressed Babbage with her ideas on the concept of a calculating engine. Her friend, Sophia Frend, later wrote, “Miss Byron, young as she was, understood its working, and saw the great beauty of the invention” (Toole 51). Ada requested that Babbage send her the blueprints for the machine so that she could further understand it. This was the beginning of a long intellectual relationship between the two and they would continue to correspond and collaborate for the next nine years. However, her mother disagreed with Babbage’s metaphysical views on mathematics and “preferred that Ada be grounded in what she considered the facts” (Toole 52). Despite this, Ada continued to meet and write with Baggage. She would go against her mother’s wishes by deciding to “not destroy her imagination but use it in her own way” (Toole 53). Ada’s work no longer focused on studying what had already been learned, but instead imagined new

With this week’s reading material, the illustration of the social role that women held in the era of Scientific Revolution was painted very clearly. The role that women held was mainly to feed their family, clean, and attend to whatever needs their family may need. However, there were some women that were self determined to be different than the typical social role. These women discovered new things and kept discovering even when the society around them told them it was not acceptable. These women were not recognized for their accomplishments and some were not even bothered that they were not recognized at all. For example, Caroline Herschel worked alongside her brother and helped him discover many things but was never insistent on being recognized

Rosalind Franklin had to face hardships in her life, and even then she was not given recognition for her works due to gender bias.The man biases she had to face were, lower pay rate than her male counterparts and the her unrecognized works of genius in her field of science. In the early 1900’s and even today women are looked as unequals to men for various reasons. But this is not the case, in fact there are many professions were a women would be better than a

It is a good idea to book. A brief profile of the 52 women who made great contributions go undetected for science and technology. We tend to think that women only started to make progress after the women's movement got rolling in the 1900s. But here, the author Rachel Swabey reach back into history to find women who are studying nature or drugs or who are already working in the field of science of 1800 and beyond.

History is so often the story of great accomplishments, done by great men. Rarely do we see the victories of women celebrated in textbooks or documentaries. While reading about the history of chemical discoveries, I often come upon paragraphs lauding the discoveries of Antoine Lavoisier. In the fine print, however, is another name: that of his wife, Marie-Anne Lavoisier. Little is known of her, but her importance in the history of chemistry cannot be overstated. In a time when women in the sciences were more rare than satisfied French peasantry, her contributions in the late 1700s set her apart. She translated essays so that her husband may examine their truths. She acted as scribe, as lab assistant, and as scientist herself. Still, she disappears

Mirroring prevalent play area tunes ("One, two, clasp my shoe"), "Harlem Hopscotch" uses a consistent "abab" rhyme plan and seven syllable line to demonstrate the ordinary hardships of numerous in the area. Angelou utilized rhyme in her own particular life to defeat incredible battles: when she was eight years of age, her mom's sweetheart assaulted her and was executed not long after. Angelou thought her voice had executed the man and wound up quiet for a long time. Amid that time, she read and remembered verse by Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Spencer, and Frances Harper, every one of whom later affected her written work. The title of an accumulation and one of Angelou's most well-known poems, "Wonderful Woman" commends dark excellence and female quality.

Traditionally, society consider mathematicians to be men. This, however, is not entirely true. Throughout history, there have been many women mathematicians who have contributed just as much as their male-counterparts. Even though their names might have been forgotten, their contributions to mathematics have not. One of these women mathematicians was German-born Emmy Noether. Known primarily for her profound theorems in ring theory, Emmy Noether's most significant achievement runs deeper: she changed the way mathematicians think about their subject. "She taught us to think in simple, and thus general, terms... homomorphic image, the group or ring with operators, the ideal... and not in complicated algebraic calculations," said her colleague P.S. Alexandroff during a memorial service after her death. In this way, she cleared a path toward the discovery of new algebraic patterns that had previously been obscured.

For hundreds of years, male intellectuals argued that the male population should be presiding over females. However, females began to convey their thoughts about ameliorating the rights of women. Mary Wollstonecraft was one of these people. She provided the most robust assertion for women's rights. I believe that she served as a powerful advocate of women’s rights because she stated what was not fair and that it was equally wrong to favor men over women. If women did not have equal rights in education, the world would not be the way it is today. For example, we may not have discovered the molecular structure of DNA or RNA because of the work of Rosalind Franklin. I agree with Mary Wollstonecraft because I think it is wrong for women to be treated

Amalie Emmy Noether is a great example of a female mathematician that was known for amazing things. For example, she is German mathematician known for her landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. Her education took place in University of Erlangen-Noremberg (1904-1907). Also, the University of Göttingen through the time of 1903-1904. (Google sites)