Math Women -- and one of them writes Poetry

     One of my recent delights was to be contacted by mathematician Lakshmi Chandrasekaran, a mathematician that is one of the team at Her Maths Story -- a website (found at https://hermathsstory.eu/ ) that publicizes and celebrates the stories of female mathematicians.  A bit of background about the website is shown in the screen-shot below:

Intro to Her Maths Story

Chandrasekaran invited me to tell MY story.  My math story includes poetry as an integrated and vital part -- and an important ingredient is a chapbook I wrote many years ago entitled My Dance is Mathematics (pdf available at this link).

     One of my favorites of the poems in that collection (written as I was working to gain confidence both as a poet and a mathematician) is the title-poem of the collection -- a poem that celebrates the math-woman Amalie "Emmy" Noether (1882-1935).  Its opening stanza, shown below, is included in my contribution to Her Maths Story:

They called you der Noether, as if mathematics

was only for men.  In 1964, nearly thirty years

past your death, at last I saw you in a spotlight,

in a World’s Fair mural, “Men of Modern Mathematics.”

This link leads to other mentions of Emmy Noether in this blog.

And, in case you missed it above, here is the link to my tale in Her Maths Story.