(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 …
In almost a year the EGMO 2020 will take place in the Netherlands. Now already more than 30 volunteers are involved in the organisation. These people are divided over more than 10 committees. Who are they? And what parts of the EGMO do they organise? We will introduce all the …
(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 …
(Text by Jenneke Krüger) Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was the daughter of an upper-class English family; so she was supposed to use her education to take part in polite conversations and catch a suitable husband. Instead she studied at home, collected data on health care and death rates, used convincing graphic …
(Text by Jenneke Krüger) The BBC named Karen ‘the bubble maths researcher’. There are two main reasons for this. Firstly, Uhlenbeck studied a special kind of surfaces and discovered that, when zooming in on these surfaces, the mathematical equivalent to tiny bubbles appeared –therefore Uhlenbeck named this technique ‘bubbling’. In …
(Text by Jenneke Krüger) Karen Uhlenbeck (1942, Cleveland, Ohio, USA) is the eldest of four children; her mother, Carolyn Windeler Keskulla, was an artist and schoolteacher and her father, Arnold Keskulla, was an engineer. The family lived in a rural community; Karen liked (and likes) to spend time outdoors, but …
Today is the start of the EGMO 2019: www.egmo2019.org. The EGMO 2019 is held in the beautiful city of Kyiv, Ukraine Best of luck to all participants there!
Karen Uhlenbeck is the first female mathematician who wins the Abel prize. This prestigious prize is named after the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel. The prize is awarded to laureates who have made extraordinary contributions to the field of mathematics. The Abel Committee recognized Uhlenbeck “for her pioneering achievements in …
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