Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America

by Margaret A.M. Murray

Book Overview

Women mathematicians of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s and how they built professional identities in the face of social and institutional obstacles. Women Becoming Mathematicians looks at the lives and careers of thirty-six of the approximately two hundred women who earned Ph.D.s in mathematics from American institutions from 1940 to 1959. During this period, American mathematical research enjoyed an unprecedented expansion, fueled by the technological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262133695
• ISBN13: 9780262133692
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

No limit to women's success in math

The reason I ordered this book was because my mother's cousin, Kenneth Wolfson, is mentioned in it several times. His support of his female students is well known and remembered by all who knew him. The book itself encourages me to pursue my own degree in mathematics. I owe my future career to my cousin and all of the women in this book. Thank you for being strong and proving to the academic world that women have a place in mathematics.

a good book

I first saw this book in the UT Math Library. I sat down and didn't stop reading it for 45 minutes (too bad I had class). It's really interesting and a quick read.