Math articles
Women in mathematics
There are many women known for their contributions to
mathematics. The woman in mathematics that I chose was
Suzan Rosa Benedict. Suzan was born in Norwalk, Ohio in
1873. She received her B.A. degree in 1895 from Smith
College with a major in chemistry and a minor in
mathematics, German, and physics.
Suzan taught high school mathematics in Norwalk
from 1895 to 1905 while also working as a real estate agent.
She then entered Columbia University, receiving her
master's degree in the history of mathematics in 1906. In the
same year she started teaching mathematics at Smith
College and where she remained for the rest of her
professional career.
Suzan continued her graduate studies while
teaching, and in 1914 she became the first woman to receive
a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. At
Smith College Suzan continued her research in the history
of mathematics, publishing papers in the Mathematics
Teacher the American Mathematical Monthly. Through her
efforts the Smith College library developed a large collection
of rare books on the history of mathematics. She was
promoted to the rank of Professor in 1921. Benedict was
also a charter member of the Mathematical Association of
America, founded in 1915.
Benedict retired from Smith in February, 1942.She died
from a heart attack two months later. Her friendliness was
not confined to the College. To her an acquaintance was a
friend and people of all sorts and conditions in the town felt
that they knew her and will miss her.
By : Christina
Biographical sketch of a great
mathematician
Annie Dale Biddle was born in Hanford,
California in 1885. She was the youngest child of
Samuel E. Biddle and A. A. Biddle. Annie received
her B.A degree from the University of California in
1908.In 1911 she became the first women to receive
a PhD in mathematics at the University of California
at Berkeley.
Annie was an instructor in mathematics
at the University of Washington in 1911-1912. On
October 7, 1912 she married Wilhelm Samuel
Andrews. They had a daughter, born in 1913, and a
son, born in 1919. Annie Andrews was an instructor
in mathematics at the University of California during
various years between 1915 and 1932.
During
1922-23 she taught Mathematical Theory of
Investment, Plane Analytic Geometry and
Differential Calculus, Solid Analytic Geometry,
Integral Calculus, and Infinite Series, College
Algebra, and Introduction to Projective Geometry.
She was dismissed from her teaching position when
the mathematics department was reorganized in
1993.
Also in March, 1933, she presented a
research paper on "The space quartic of the second
kind by synthetic methods" at a meeting of the
American Mathematical Society in Palo Alto. The
abstract for the talk was published in the AMS
Bulletin. After a two year illness, Andrews died on
April 14, 1940, survived by her husband and two
children. During the last four years of her life she
took an active interest in public affairs and
charitable work in addition to her mathematical
research.
By: Christina Rockwell
Carol Ruth Vander Velde was born in Forest Grove, Michigan, part of the Dutch farming community near Holland,
Michigan. She attended school there and in Ohio where her family moved when she was 11. She graduated with
distinction from Manchester College, Indiana, in 1948, and then earned a master's degree in mathematics from Michigan
State University in 1950. Before entering the graduate program in mathematics at the University of Southern California in
1951, she spent time as a violist in a touring all-woman orchestra.
During her first year at USC, Carol married Arthur Karp. During the next 8 years she pursued her graduate studies while
following her thesis advisor, Leon Henkin, and her husband around the country and the world. She spent two years at the
University of California at Berkeley and parts of the years 1957 and 1958 in Japan where her husband was stationed in
the Navy. In 1958 she accepted a position at the University of Maryland. Karp finally received her Ph.D. from the
University of Southern California in 1959 with a dissertation on "Languages with expressions of infinite length" [Abstract].
Karp spent her entire career at the University of Maryland, reaching the rank of professor only 7 years after earning her
Ph.D. She was a highly respected member of the international logic community and a leader in the developing theory of
infinitely logic. Her book Languages with Expressions of Infinite Length was one of her most important contributions to
this area. She was instrumental in the growth of the mathematical logic group in the mathematics department at
Maryland and supervised four Ph.D. students in logic. She was a consulting editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic and an
active member of her department until her death from breast cancer at the age of 46. Lopez-Escobar, a colleague at the
University of Maryland, writes [3]:
Carol Karp died...after a brave battle against cancer which had lasted for three long years. To her, teaching had always
been more than a duty, and even during her illness she taught all her classes in addition to carrying out her administrative
tasks. Her research, too, was pushed forward with her usual determination, but unfortunately the planned new
monograph on infinitely languages remained unfinished. Her early work was collected in her one published book, but she
realized that it very much need to be brought up to date.
Self-help article
Begin preparing early
Pay attention during class: 1 minute of day dreaming costs 2 minutes of study time. Do those annoying homework
assignments: math is a building process and in order to understand the next step you need to understand the present and
previous steps.
Simulate test conditions
after you have studied and think you know the material, practice it under test conditions. Solve unassigned homework
problems in a test-like location (like the kitchen table using a cooking timer.)
Know your professor
Study a copy of the exam of a previous class if available (it usually isn’t but it can’t hurt to ask)
Talk with someone who’s taken that class before, preferably someone who DOESN’T FAIL!
Form a study group of 3-4 dedicated students
not only will other students be able to help you with problems, but by helping others you will better learn the material. If
you are unable teach another student a topic you believe you know, chances are you don't know that topic very well after
all. If you can't teach it, you don't know it!
Maria Gaetana Agnesi.
A child prodigy, an Italian linguist and a math wizard, Maria was multidimensional talent. Born in a wealthy family in 1718, she was the 21st
child of her parents. She had a command over half a dozen languages. She
is a renowned personality in the field of mathematics. Her contributions
are as follows:
She wrote the first book introducing integral and differential calculus. She
also wrote 'Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu Italian'; a master
piece regarded as the best extension to her work. She wrote a treaty, which
was never published, but very well liked. She determined the equation of a
peculiar curve, which came to be known as the 'Witch of Agnesi'.
The name of this curve has a history. Versaria is the name given by Ghandi,
meaning "turning in every direction". In the course of time the word
Versaria took on another meaning. The Latin words adversaria, and by
aphaeresis, versaria, signifies a female that is contrary to God. Thus
gradually the curve versaria is understood in English as the Witch.
Math and space:
Weight on earth, and
the weight varies as
you travel.
On different planets
you change in weight,
and the gravity
factor is different.
Planet. Approximate
weight.
Jupiter
Neptune
Saturn
Uranus
Venus
Mars
Mercury
Pluto
2.6 times av. Earth
weight
1.4 times av. Earth
weight
1.1 times av. Earth
weight
1.1 times av. Earth
weight
0.9 times av. Earth
weight
0.4 times av. Earth
weight
0.3 times av. Earth
weight
1. times av.
Earth
weight
Helen has 3 inches of hair cut off each time
she goes to the hair salon. If n equals the
length of hair before she cuts it and c
equals the length of hair after she cuts it,
which equation would you use to find the
length of Helen's hair after she visit the hair
salon?
a) n = 3 - c
c) c = n - 3
b) c = 3 - n
d) n = c – 3
If Mary is 5 inches taller than
john, and john is 3 inches shorter
than Kate, and Kate is 6’0, how
tall is Mary?
Answer
Mary is 6’2 and John is 5’9.
Math puzzle:
Answer Key:
Ask.com/math puzzles for kids
Answer key:
0+4=4
3+0=2+1
1
0
5
2
7
2
5
Across.
Down.
• 12x6= y
• 6x3= y
•
•2xy= 26