Women mathematicians

Sophie Germain Sophie Germain was a famous French mathematician. She was born on April 1, 1776 in Paris, France to very wealthy parents. Although her family was wealthy, they never allowed Sophie to study or receive an education. At that time, educating women was frowned upon and perceived as “dangerous”. Despite these beliefs, Sophie was determined to teach herself mathematics(Agnes Scott) . She did this by secretly reading math books in the night from her father’s library. Eventually

my assignment by discussing how gender affects the learning of mathematics, focussing on secondary school mathematics, and then continue to analyse whether using same-sex classes could be a useful adjustment in today’s secondary schools. As a mathematician myself I have gone through the educational system and seen the uneven proportion of boys to girls within mathematics classrooms. As soon as mathematics became

Plato and Archimedes: Two Great Mathematicians of All Time Plato is one of the greatest mathematicians and teachers of geometry to ever live. To some, he is known as the “maker of math.” He himself made an academy that stressed mathematics as a way of understanding reality. He founded this academy in 387 BCE. According to one website, “... he was convinced that geometry was the key to unlocking the secrets to the universe.” Plato had many contributions in mathematics and geometry that helped in

Math is a big part of our lives now because once we get jobs we usually have to count money or add things up and in high school and college math gets even harder every year. This woman was born in the era of revolution when she was born the American Revolution had just began and a decade and two years later the French Revolution had begun in her own country. Sophie Germain was a middle class female who followed her dreams the dreams she wanted not the ones her parents wanted. She was born April

collaborated on several ground breaking papers. But in 1917, as a result of the climate and a poor diet, Ramanujan contracted tuberculosis. A well known story tells Hardy visiting him in hospital; unable to think what to say. Placing Ramanujan along side John Keats may seem a bit paradoxical as he former belonging to Mahemtics the latter to English Literature. Moreover, Ramanujan has never been marked having an interest in English language nor in literature. But the juxtaposition is apt and appropriate

John Charles Fields John Charles Fields is perhaps one of the most famous Canadian Mathematicians of all time. He was born on May 14, 1863 in Hamilton Ontario, and died August 9, 1932 in Toronto, Ontario (Young, 1998). He graduated from the University of Toronto at the age of 21 with a B.A in Mathematics and went on to get his Ph.D. at John Hopkins University in 1887. Fields was very interested to study at John Hopkins University because apparently it was the only university in North America which

Sophie Germain was a French physicst, mathematician, and philospher in the 17 and 18 hundreds. By breaking the gender roles during her time period she was a pionner in elastity and number thereom. She was oppresed by her family and community because of her gender so did not have any easy path towards success compared to many others during her time. As an adolescent the Batille fell, forcing her to stay indoors for long period times. Enternationg herself, she became very interested in her fathers

The Life of Ramanujan based on Joseph Campbell’s model of analysis Srinivasa Ramanujan was one the greatest mathematicians in India. With no formal training in pure mathematics, he made significant contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and made an outbreak in continued fractions, elliptical functions and infinite series. He is deeply religious and credits his mathematical capacities to divinity. He once told his friend, “An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought

The film Hidden Figures is based on a true story and adapted from the book ‘Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race’ by Margot Lee Shetterly. The movie is centered around a trio of African-American women who worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and played an essential role in sending John Glenn to space amidst a burgeoning Space Race between the United States of America and Russia. Based

Joseph Louis Lagrange was born on January 25, 1736 in Turin, Italy to his father and mother: Giuseppe Francesco Lodovico Lagrangia and Maria Teresa Grosso. He was raised in a Roman Catholic home but later on he became agnostic. His father’s job was a Treasurer in the Office of Public Works and Fortifications and his mother was the only daughter of a nearby medical doctor from Cambiano. Lagrange was the eldest out of the eleven children his parents had however, only two of their children reached adulthood