(Interview by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès. Image by Pilar Bayer i Isant) This is the second part of an interview we did last June with Dr. Pilar Bayer, chair of Algebra and Emeritus Professor at the Universitat de Barcelona. You can read the first part here. P: So as I …
(Interview by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès) Last week, you got to know about Pilar Bayer from our words about her and some comments of her own. If you already though that she totally rocks, brace yourself because this week and the next one you will get to read about her …
(Text and interview by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès) Pilar Bayer i Isant was born February 13*, 1946 in Barcelona. She is a renowned specialist on number theory and the founder of the Seminari de Teoria de Nombres de Barcelona (Barcelona Number Theory Seminar), which currently gathers internationally acclaimed researchers in …
(Interview by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès) Last week we shared with you the first part of our interview with category theorist Emily Riehl. We talked about mathematical competitions, female mathematicians helping each other progress in academia, and the importance of asking questions in class. This week we are back with …
(Interview by Mireia Martínez i Sellarès) Emily Riehl is a category theorist. This means that she studies a kind of mathematical objects called categories. A category consists of a collection of objects and a collection of arrows between these objects. So, for example, there is a category that has natural …
(Text by David Hokken) Last month, we saw that Florence Nightingale supported the allied forces in the Crimean War (1853-1856) as a statistician and nurse. She was not the only great female mathematician affected by this war. On the other side of the battlefield fought General Korvin-Krukovsky. The general had …
(Text by Erik Menzel) Emmy Noether, in full Amalie Emmy Noether (March 23, 1882, Erlangen, Germany-April 14, 1935, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S.), was born to the Jewish family of Max Noether and Ida Amalia Noether and was the sister of 4 brothers of which 3 died untimely. In school she …
(This post is a translation by Dédé de Haan of the article “Als enige vrouw in de wiskunde val je wel op”, written by Ellen de Bruin. The original text, in Dutch, belongs to NRC Media and was published on August 25, 2015 on nrc.nl (https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2015/08/15/als-enige-vrouw-in-de-wiskunde-val-je-wel-op-1523725-a657945). The NRC-article has been …
(Text by Danny Beckers) Maria Gaetana Agnesi (born in Milan, May 16, 1718 – died in Milan, January 9, 1799), famous for her textbook on calculus and her contributions to the discussions in the Milanese salon of her father. Daughter of Pietro Agnesi (1690?-1752), a very wealthy Milanese silk merchant, …
(Text by Jenneke Krüger) Florence Nightingale was very conscientious in collecting numerical data. Even in the harsh conditions during the Crimean War, she meticulously noted number of patients, causes of deaths and death rates. Data which she used later on to create, with Farr, the famous ‘coxcomb’ diagrams (see Figure …
