Nöther was born into a Jewish family in the Franconian city of Erlangen. Her parents, the mathematician Max Nöther and Ida ...
THOMAS HARRIOT: A Life in Science. By Robyn Arianrhod. Oxford University Press. 352 pages. $29.95. Lost in the mists of history until comparatively recently was the Elizabethan- and Jacobean-era ...
When I was teaching mathematics in the 90s, before the internet, I had a book of “women mathematicians.” This was helpful for sharing inspirational stories with my middle school students, but there ...