Grace chisholm young: Gender and mathematics around 1900

Women's History Review

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 675-693

  Jones, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34247317249     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612020000200266     Document Type: Review

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2. Kovalevsky had been awarded 'unofficially' a doctorate in mathematics from Göttingen University in 1874, but since she did not attend the viva voce examination, the first official female recipient of a doctorate in Germany was Grace Chisholm Young twenty years later. See Lynn Osen (1974) Women in Mathematics, pp. 117-140 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press).
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5. Kenschaft, 'Women in Mathematics', pp. 906-907. London Mathematical Society contributors often used initials so determining their sex is difficult.
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