Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination:
Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Penn State University philosophy professor and poet Emily Grosholz uses mathematics not-infrequently in her work (for example, this posting of mine) and she has written (as I have) about discrimination suffered by mathematician Amalie "Emmy" Noether -- described by the NYTimes in a March 2012 article as "the most significant mathematician you've never heard of." My own poem about Noether was a poem of self-discovery in which I wrote of discrimination against her and began to see aspects of my own situation more clearly. That poem, "My Dance Is Mathematics," appears in this blog's opening post -- on 23 March 2012.
Here, Emmy Noether is featured in Grosholz's poem, "Mind":