Contribution to Book
Founders, Feminists, and a Fascist -- Some Notable Women in the Missouri Section of the MAA
Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America
Abstract
In the history of the Missouri Section of the MAA, some of the more interesting people who influenced the growth and development of the section through the years were and are women. In this chapter, we discuss the contributions of a few (certainly not all) of these women to the Missouri Section and mathematics as a whole, including Emily Kathryn Wyant (founder of KME), Margaret F. Willerding (who dealt with sexism in the 1940s), Maria Castellani (an official in Mussolini’s Italy before coming to America), and T. Christine Stevens (co-founder of Project NExT). Without them, and others like them, both mathematics and the Missouri Section of the MAA would be poorer.
Department(s)
Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords and Phrases
- Mathematics,
- Missouri,
- MAA,
- Women,
- Myth,
- Staircase,
- Landing
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-3-319-66693-8
Document Type
Book - Chapter
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2017 The Author(s) and the Association for Women in Mathematics, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Publication Date
01 Jan 2017
Disciplines
Citation Information
Leon M. Hall. "Founders, Feminists, and a Fascist -- Some Notable Women in the Missouri Section of the MAA" Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America (2017) p. 121 - 140 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/leon-hall/37/
Chapter 7 of Women in Mathematics Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America Beery, J.; Greenwald, S.; Jensen-Vallin, J.; Mast, M. (Eds.) 2017, XII, 405 p. 57 illus., 39 illus. in color
Part of the Association for Women in Mathematics Series book series (AWMS, volume 10)