Posts tagged ‘mathematics’

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Fan Chung, leading combinatorics and graph theory researcher, and Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at UC San Diego.

A mathematics Olympian, 1960s computer programmers, a writer who is so sick of tokenism he’d rather be erased, and more!

Talk on June 15 at Melbourne University: Dr Cathy Foley, 100 years later: has anything changed for women in science?: This talk will look at what is the status of women in science in Australia, ...

Jen from epbot (and Cake Wrecks fame) has a post up about this t-shirt… As a woman with a math degree, I know a whole lot more about math than the company making the shirt, ...

This is a guest post by Lindsey Kuper. Lindsey Kuper does math and code and music and splatters it unceremoniously all over the Internet. This post originally appeared at her blog and was linked from ...

Apparently we’ve never had a hyperbolic crochet thread before. Criminal, I say. Here’s an example: Image description: a close-up of a very multi-coloured crochet item, with many curves folding in on itself. Image credit: Michael ...

This post was originally published at Restructure! Several recent studies have suggested that the gender gap in STEM fields is caused not by bias, but simply by different choices made by men and women. What ...

This is a guest post by Beth. Beth is a C++ programmer outside of Boston, MA. A pioneer in algorithm design for both human and mechanical computers, Gertrude Blanch (February 2, 1897–January 1, 1996) ran ...

Despite the fact that I grew up to earn a degree in mathematics, I remember math classes in my elementary school as pretty much the dullest subject on earth. Which is probably one of the ...

Wednesday Geek Woman submissions are currently open. This is a guest post. Emmy Noether was one of the most important mathematicians of the 20th Century. Noether’s (first) theorem, which states that for every symmetry in ...

From Diagrams that changed the world (BBC News): One of the first to use the visual world to navigate numbers was Florence Nightingale. Although better known for her contributions to nursing, her greatest achievements were ...

This is a guest post by Megan. Megan is a life-long geek and feminist currently working towards a PhD in Chemistry. Émilie du Châtelet is one of the most under-celebrated scientists of the Age of ...

Females Are Equal to Males in Math Skills, Large Study Shows These studies, all published in English between 1990 and 2007, looked at people from grade school to college and beyond. A second portion of ...

The Haecksen women’s miniconference at linux.conf.au (Brisbane, January 2011) is calling for submissions, closing very shortly on September 24. Abbie Heppe gave a critical review of Metroid: Other M, and the backlash was immense and ...

Check out, and contribute to, Flickr’s Women in Tech group, photos of women in technology speaking at conferences or doing techy things. (Also check out The New Feminine for a little subversion of what “feminine” ...

Clara Raubertas has a wrap-up of the women-in-Free-Software focussed talks and events at the Free Software Foundation’s LibrePlanet 2010. Richie is highly critical of an look-a-unicorn-in-wargaming entry at Bell of Lost Souls and goes on ...