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Woman into Mathematician: The Opening of University Mathematical Education to Women in the British Isles: A Prosopographical Note (2018)

Davis, A. E. L. (Author)

British Journal for the History of Mathematics
Volume: 33
Issue: 1
Pages: 29-32

DOI: 10.1080/17498430.2017.1308126

URI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2017.1308126

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Mathematics education Collective biographies Women in science Universities and colleges Mathematics Science and gender 20th century, early 19th century British Isles

Only when university education is fully open to ‘women on equal terms with men’ is it proper to say that it is possible for (almost) everybody to study mathematics to whatever level they can attain. Unfortunately, there has not yet been an account of the beginnings of comprehensive university education for women in the British Isles: accordingly, we will use the narrower range of material available in the meantime. The whole of the British Isles has been included in the Davis Historical Archive, a survey of women mathematical graduates 1878–1940, and the result incorporated in the MacTutor Archive, and this will provide the data to enable us to make some comments on the situation in the first twenty-five years. (The ramifications of a social background with many common features will probably apply to all women university graduates but can at present be justified only with reference to the cohort who studied mathematics. And, while we are restricted by the data currently available, to discussing a particular university in England, the conclusions inferred will almost certainly apply in the same social context throughout the UK—and even, by anecdotal evidence, to prosperous middle-class daughters in the USA.)

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