Women in Mathematics (book)
Women in Mathematics is a book on women in mathematics. It was written by Lynn M. Osen, and published by the MIT Press in 1974. Topics The main content of the book is a collection of eight biographies of women mathematicians, arranged chronologically, with an additional introductory chapter and two closing chapters. The mathematicians profiled here are Hypatia, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Émilie du Châtelet, Caroline Herschel, Sophie Germain, Mary Somerville, Sofya Kovalevskaya, and Emmy Noether. One of the two closing chapters features shorter profiles of additional women mathematicians, "rather curiously selected" and "mostly working in America". The scientists mentioned in this chapter are Mary W. Gray, Mina Rees, Lise Meitner, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Charlotte Scott, Hanna Neumann, Maria Pastori, Maria Cibrario, Jacqueline Lelong-Ferraud, Paulette Libermann (misspelled Liberman), Sophie Piccard (misspelled Picard), Olga Taussky-Todd, Emma Lehmer (misspelled Lermer), Julia Robinson, Elizabeth Scott, Grace Hopper and Dorothy Maharam Stone. Reception Although reviewer Philip Peak found the book "interesting and useful", and reviewer writes that it is written in a pleasant style, most reviewers were not as positive. Hardy Grant writes that Osen's profile of Hypatia has treated her "very badly" by being based primarily on a piece of fiction for children written