women mathematicians

Caitlin Decter, a young and attractive math genius who is blind, follows the pathways of the Internet in her mind, and when she receives an implant to restore her sight, she visualizes the World Wide Web all around her and realizes that a new intelligence lurks in the background.

"The stifling summer streets of Lisbon are teeming with spies and informers when Andrea Aspinall, a brilliant English mathematician turned spy, disappears under a new identity. Double agent Karl Voss, experienced in the illusions of intrigue, arrives in Lisbon under the German Legation, though he is secretly plotting against the Nazis. In the lethal tranquility of a corrupted paradise, Andrea and Karl meet and embark on a brief, intense love affair."--back cover.

Presents biographies of women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who pursued their interests in mathematics. Each chapter includes different mathematical activities.

Profiles 195 women throughout history to have achieved prominence and success in the fields of math and science including eighteenth-century Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi, African-American physicist Shirley Ann Jackson, and British zoologist Valerie Jane Goodall.

Profiles six female mathematicians who overcame unique challenges in their lives to make significant contributions to the study and understanding of math.

Provides an account of nine women mathematicians, their lives and their work, with mathematics activities which relate to the work of each.

Caitlin Decter, a young and attractive math genius who is blind, follows the pathways of the Internet in her mind, and when she receives an implant to restore her sight, she visualizes the World Wide Web all around her and realizes that a new intelligence lurks in the background.

A biographical and historical study of Hypatia, a philosopher and mathematician in the 300s and 400s, who was killed in Alexandria by Christians because they thought she was pagan.