Celebration is everywhere (including here in The New Yorker ) -- mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck has recently won the Abel prize for her revolutionary work: " . . . pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry, and mathematical physics."
Here (pulled from The New Yorker article also cited above) are some of Uhlenbeck's poetic words about women in mathematics:
It's really hard for me to describe
to people who are not somewhat near me in age
what it was like for women then ... and it was only
because of the women's movement and books like
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Friday, March 29, 2019
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