Change is possible : stories of women and minorities in mathematics

Summary: "Based on dozens of interviews and extensive historical research, this book relates stories about mathematicians who have defied stereotypes. It is spiced with interesting photographs. The five chapters about women provide insight into the nineteenth century, the mid-twentieth century, the early 1970s, the early 1990s, and 2004. Activists in many fields can take heart at the changes. The author documents trends from the rudimentary struggles simply to become professionals, to the freedom to be married without giving up a career entirely, to organizing to eliminate the most flagrant discrimination, to efforts to improve the daily treatment of women in the professional community, to widespread efforts toward true equity."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0821837486 (acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780821837481 (acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
ix, 212 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

With the help of good white men -- Women and mathematics in the nineteenth century -- The twentieth century : mathematics and marriage -- African American mathematicians from the eighteenth through the twentieth century -- Latino mathematicians -- Reawakening : The Association for Women in Mathematics -- Skits tell what's happening around 1990 -- Women in mathematics now (2004) -- Minorities in mathematics now (2004) -- Appendix to chapter 5 the careers of 75 African American mathematicians of New Jersey in mid-1985.