Change is possible : stories of women and minorities in mathematics / Patricia Clark Kenschaft

Von:

Kenschaft, Patricia C, 1940- [aut]

Mitwirkende(r):

American Mathematical Society [oth]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBuchSprache: Englisch Verlag: Providence, RI : American Mathematical Society, 2005Beschreibung: IX, 212 S. : Ill. ; 26 cmISBN:

9780821837481
0821837486

Schlagwörter:

Genre/Form:

Biografie

DDC-Klassifikation:

510/.82 22

MSC: MSC: *01A80 | 01A70 | 01-02RVK: RVK: SG 553LOC-Klassifikation:

QA10.5
QA10.5.K46 2005

Zusammenfassung: Based on dozens of interviews and extensive historical research, this entertaining book relates stories about mathematicians who have defied stereotypes. It is spiced with interesting photographs. There are five chapters about women that provide insight into the nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century, the early 1970s, the early 1990s, and 2004. Activists in many fields can take heart at the changes. The author documents trends from the rudimentary struggles simply to become professionals, to the freedom to be married without giving up a career entirely, to organizing to eliminate the most flagrant discrimination, to efforts to improve the daily treatment of women in the professional community, to widespread efforts toward true equity. [...] (Cover)PPN: PPN: 486875385

Exemplare ( 1 )

Exemplare
Medientyp	Heimatbibliothek	Standort	Signatur	Status	Barcode
Freihandbestand ausleihbar	Fachbibliothek Mathematik	Bibliothek / frei aufgestellt	Gesch. /Phil. / Ken	Verfügbar	36463798090

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