One of the fascinating websites that I have found recently "Lost Women of Science" -- a podcast series available at https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/. This site has lots of bios and I browsed among them using the search term "mathematics". One of the fascinating stories that I found is that of Naomi Livesay -- who played a key role in the Manhattan project.
Learn more about Naomi Livesay at this link. |
These recent considerations of women in science have led me to recall a blog posting that I made back in June of 2012 that featured this poem of mine (with stanzas that are syllable-squares):