By: Ms. R’s 1st hour
When you think
mathematicians
you think, Albert
Einstein. You
forget the
minority of
mathematicians
out there. There
have been many
women
mathematicians'
in our time. My
class has picked
four women to
celebrate in this
presentation. The
women changed
the way we do
math today.
Florence Nightingale
(1820-1910)
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Was tutored in Italian, Latin, Greek, history, philosophy, and
mathematics.
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In 1854, was recruited along with 38 other nurses for service
in Scutari during the Crimean War.
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Collected data and organized record-keeping practices. Took
her statistical data & showed them graphically.
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She invented the polar-area charts (pie charts), where the
statistic being represented is proportional to the area of the
wedge in a circular diagram.
Amalie Emmy Noether
March 23, 1882 - April 14, 1935
• She discovered abstract
algebra
• She is also known for
discovering theoretical
physics
• Noether’s theory of
physics explains the
fundamental connection
between symmetry and
conservation laws
• She revolutionized the
theories of rings, fields,
and algebras
Mary Lucy Cartwright (19001998)
• Attended St. Hugh’s College in
Oxford where she studied
mathematics for 2 years.
• The thesis on the zeros of
integral functions of special
types.
• She forced nonlinear
oscillations (covering both
ordinary differential equations
and discrete mapping.)
• Anticipated some of the
geometrical ideas that are
fundamental to chaotic
dynamics.
Alice Roth
Date of Birth: February 6, 1905
Date of Death: July 22, 1977
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Alice Roth attended, Höhere Töchterschule der Stadt
Zürich, as well as the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology.
What led to the contribution was when Alice was
researching for her thesis she found a debate about
approximation, and wanted to further prove this
debate.
Her actual contribution was when she discovered the
Approximation Theory. Or the “Swiss Cheese” theory,
which is trying to find a way to prove how to round
irrational numbers.
The result of the Approximation Theory was she
opened a new window and many mathematicians are
able to help further discover more today.
Fan Chung: Ramsey
Theory
Date of Birth: October 9,1949 -?
Ramsey Theory
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Explains the number of possibilities in a given set of numbers.
EXAMPLE:Party Problem
-If an R (m,n) number of people attend a party, what is the
possibility that by grouping them into groups of two, an m number
of people will be strangers and an n number of people will be
acquaintances? Here, R (m,n) is a Ramsey number.
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She got her B.S. in 1970, her M.S. in 1972, and her Ph.D. in 1974,
and she graduated in the class of 1975 from the University of
Pennsylvania.
She received a Mathematical Association of America Allendoerfer
Award for her excerpt, “Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard in 1990.”
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Fan Chung is a Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and
Engineering. She is an Akamai Professor in Internet Mathematics at
the University of California in San Diego.
CREDITS
Florence Nightingale: Will and Daniel
Amalie Emmy Noether: Benny and Manuel
Mary Lucy Cartwright: Mercedes and Kiyanna
Alice Roth: Abby and Kristen
Fan Chung: Alexia, Lizeth and Daisy
Team Leader: Kristen
Song(s): Jump Around by House of Pain
References
Florence Nightingale
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_chart
http://www.agnesscott.edu/LRIDDLE/WOMEN/night_educ.htm
http://www.universityscience.ie/pages/scientists/sci_florencenightingale.php
Amalie Emmy Noether
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www.wikipedia.com
www.google.com
www.askkids.com
www.wikianswers.com
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/cartwrght.htm
www.answers.com/topic/mary-cartwright
http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/phase2/cartwright,mary,lucy@951234567
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/cartwright.html
http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/articles/ebcart11.html
Alice Roth References:
http://www.angnesscott.edu/LRIDDLE/WOMEN/aliceroth.htm
http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=30924
http://www.menno.org.uk/images/50thAnniversary/Worship/images/AliceRoth.jpg
http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/Pure/analysis/yfag/feinstein.txt
www.google.com
www.mathworld.wolfram.com
Fan Chung
www.math.unh.edu/~duf/532/Ramsey
www.mathworld.wolfram.com/RamseyTheory.html
www.google.com