Posts tagged ‘mathematics’

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 ...