Editors:
- Contains articles considering the historical context of the gender gap in mathematics
- Records the historic first World Meeting for Women in Mathematics
- Includes an analysis of women lecturers in the ICM since its inception
Part of the book series: Association for Women in Mathematics Series (AWMS, volume 20)
Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.
Table of contents (7 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
The First World Meeting for Women in Mathematics
-
Front Matter
-
-
The Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences from a Historical Perspective
-
Front Matter
-
About this book
The first World Meeting for Women in Mathematics - (WM)² - was a satellite event of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. With a focus on Latin America, the first (WM)² brought together mathematicians from all over the world to celebrate women mathematicians, and also to reflect on gender issues in mathematics, challenges, initiatives, and perspectives for the future. Its activities were complemented by a panel discussion organized by the Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) inside the ICM 2018 entitled "The gender gap in mathematical and natural sciences from a historical perspective”.
This historical proceedings book, organized by CWM in coordination with the Association for Women in Mathematics, records the first (WM)² and the CWM panel discussion at ICM 2018. The first part of the volume includes a report of activities with pictures of the first (WM)² and a tribute to Maryam Mirzakhani, thefirst woman to be awarded the Fields medal. It also comprises survey research papers from invited lecturers, which provide panoramic views of different fields in pure and applied mathematics. The second part of the book contains articles from the panelists of the CWM panel discussion, which consider the historical context of the gender gap in mathematics. It includes an analysis of women lecturers in the ICM since its inception. This book is dedicated to the memory of Maryam Mirzakhani.
Editors and Affiliations
-
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Carolina Araujo
-
Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, USA
Georgia Benkart
-
Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
Cheryl E. Praeger
-
Department of Mathematics, Boğaziçi University, Bebek, Turkey
Betül Tanbay
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: World Women in Mathematics 2018
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the First World Meeting for Women in Mathematics (WM)²
Editors: Carolina Araujo, Georgia Benkart, Cheryl E. Praeger, Betül Tanbay
Series Title: Association for Women in Mathematics Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21170-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21169-1Published: 17 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21172-1Published: 17 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21170-7Published: 16 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2364-5733
Series E-ISSN: 2364-5741
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 156
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences, History of Mathematical Sciences