Instructing the mathematical imagination : Charlotte Angas Scott and Bryn Mawr College, 1880s to 1920s / Jemma Lorenat.

SeriesHistory of mathematics ; vol. 48
History of mathematics ; v. 48. ^A222262
Contents A Girton girl and the lady wrangler -- Generals without armies : mathematics at Cambridge beyond the Tripos -- To organize a department of mathematics -- Bryn Mawr in the mathematical landscape toward the end of the nineteenth century -- Motivation : to trace an unsuspected connection -- Theme : distinguishing between appearance and reality -- Technique : curve tracing -- Better off in Noah's Ark : Bryn Mawr and professional mathematical societies -- Pure imaginaries in the Mathematical Journal Club Notebook -- Branches, knots, and topological research -- The other half of the Bryn Mawr mathematics department -- Readers, administrators, and professoresses -- Remembering Bryn Mawr mathematics.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formBiographies.
LCCN 2025029014
ISBN9781470474935 paperback
ISBN147047493X paperback
ISBNelectronic book

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