Throughout recorded history, women were largely kept from working in mathematics. Even when their genius, creativity, and work ethic were recognized by some of their male counterparts, they were rarely able to obtain degrees or hold positions at universities. Even now, whenever a mathematician is casually named in a math course, this name is rarely a woman’s. Most students in a Calculus course aren’t hard-pressed to mention Newton or Euler or Gauss. For Women’s History Month, I put together material to share with my students to show them some of the most important women in mathematics, divided into four sections for each week of Women’s History Month. My hope is not only to give them examples of other women in mathematics, but to show them what progress we’ve made so far, through examples of the women who have helped make that progress possible. Created by: Nicole Buczkowski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute with funding from the EmpOwER grant awarded by the Women's Impact Network.

Creator

• Buczkowski, Nicole

Subject

• OER

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Keyword

• Women in mathematics

Year

• 2023

Date created

• 2023

Resource type

• Report

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International

Last modified

• 2023-05-09