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Complexities: Women in Mathematics, edited by Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett. Pp. 412. £22.95 (hbk). 2005. ISBN 0 691 11462 5 (Princeton University Press).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

A. E. L. Davis*
Affiliation:
13 Talbot House, 98 St Martin’s Lane, London WC2N 4AX Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College

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References

1. No comparable figures by sex and status are given for the US, but 2% of professors, and 14% of all lecturers, in UK mathematical departments were female in 1997–8 (apparently the latest data we have).

2. Grinstein, and Campbell, , Women of Mathematics: a bibliographic sourcebook, Greenwood Press 1987.Google Scholar

3. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 46 (2000), pp. 1935. There is as yet no full-length biography.Google Scholar