INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY !
Celebrate MATH-WOMEN by writing POEMS about them!
Celebrate MATH-WOMEN by writing POEMS about them!
I want to shout out a THANK YOU to Larry Riddle of Agnes Scott College for his website, "Biographies of Women Mathematicians" -- around two-hundred women are portrayed there. One of these is Philippa Fawcett (1868-1946) in an article that opens with these words:
Became, in 1890, the first woman to score the highest mark
of all the candidates for the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge University.
Women at that time were not eligible for a Cambridge BA degree, however.
A Wikipedia article quotes one of her students at Newnham College, Cambridge:
“What I remember most vividly of Miss Fawcett's coaching was
her concentration, speed, and infectious delight in what she was teaching ... "
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