Geometry at Cambridge, 1863–1940

Barrow-Green, June; Gray, Jeremy

doi:10.1016/j.hm.2005.09.002

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“…Hudson, a member of a family of distinguished mathematicians, worked mainly in the theory of Cremona transformations, on which she had published various articles. Between 1910 and 1913, she was an Associate Research Fellow at the Newnham College4 [2]. As pointed out in [5], Hilda Hudson is listed in the Proceedings of the congress in 1912 as an accompanying person to her father, Prof. William Henry Hoar Hudson, showing how misleading the distinction between accompanying persons and 'real' participants was in that period.…”

Section: Women Pioneersmentioning

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A Data Analysis of Women’s Trails Among ICM Speakers

Mihaljević¹,

Roy²

2019

Association for Women in Mathematics Series

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The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), inaugurated in 1897, is the greatest effort of the mathematical community to strengthen international communication and connections across all mathematical fields. Meetings of the ICM have historically hosted some of the most prominent mathematicians of their time. Receiving an invitation to present a talk at an ICM signals the high international reputation of the recipient, and is akin to entering a 'hall of fame for mathematics'. Women mathematicians attended the ICMs from the start. With the invitation of Laura Pisati to present a lecture in 1908 in Rome and the plenary talk of Emmy Noether in 1932 in Zurich, they entered the grand international stage of their field. At the congress in 2014 in Seoul, Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics. In this article, we dive into assorted data sources to follow the footprints of women among the ICM invited speakers, analyzing their demographics and topic distributions, and providing glimpses into their diverse biographies.

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Section: Women Pioneersmentioning

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A Data Analysis of Women’s Trails Among ICM Speakers

Mihaljević¹,

Roy²

2019

Association for Women in Mathematics Series

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“…Cunningham's first paper on relativity set out to overturn an objection raised by Max Abraham with respect to Lorentz's electron theory. Abraham (1905, 205) believed that energy conservation required a fundamental modification of Lorentz's deformable electron model, in the form of a supplemental internal, non-electromagnetic source of 5 For an assessment of Baker's rise to prominence among Cambridge geometers, see Barrow-Green and Gray (2006).…”

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Figures of Light in the Early History of Relativity (1905–1914)

Walter

2018

Einstein Studies

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Albert Einstein's bold assertion of the form-invariance of the equation of a spherical light wave with respect to inertial frames of reference (1905) became, in the space of six years, the preferred foundation of his theory of relativity. Early on, however, Einstein's universal lightsphere invariance was challenged on epistemological grounds by Henri Poincaré, who promoted an alternative demonstration of the foundations of relativity theory based on the notion of a light ellipsoid. A third figure of light, Hermann Minkowski's lightcone also provided a new means of envisioning the foundations of relativity. Drawing in part on archival sources, this paper shows how an informal, international group of physicists, mathematicians, and engineers, including

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“…During Scott's lifetime, communication between British and continental mathematicians was sometimes lacking (Barrow-Green & Gray, 2006). Scott noted blithely in a review of an English textbook that [...] in our disappointment we utter a fervent wish that instead of the "large number of university and college examination papers, set in Oxford, Cambridge, London, and elsewhere" Mr. Edwards had consulted an equally large number of mathematical memoirs published, principally, elsewhere.…”

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Certain Modern Ideas and Methods: “Geometric Reality” in the Mathematics of Charlotte Angas Scott

Lorenat

2019

The Review of Symbolic Logic

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Charlotte Angas Scott (1858–1932) was an internationally renowned geometer, the first British woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics, and the chair of the Bryn Mawr mathematics department for forty years. There she helped shape the burgeoning mathematics community in the United States. Scott often motivated her research as providing a “geometric treatment” of results that had previously been derived algebraically. The adjective “geometric” likely entailed many things for Scott, from her careful illustration of diagrams to her choice of references and citations. This article will focus on Scott’s striking and consistent use of geometric to describe a reality of dynamic points, lines, planes, and spaces that could be manipulated analogously to physical objects. By providing geometric interpretations of algebraic derivations, Scott committed to an early-nineteenth-century aesthetic vision of a “whole” analytical geometry that she adapted to modern research areas.

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Geometry at Cambridge, 1863–1940

Cited by 16 publications

References 84 publications

A Data Analysis of Women’s Trails Among ICM Speakers

A Data Analysis of Women’s Trails Among ICM Speakers

Figures of Light in the Early History of Relativity (1905–1914)

Certain Modern Ideas and Methods: “Geometric Reality” in the Mathematics of Charlotte Angas Scott

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