OLLI101274 - FRIDAY FORUM - The Math Matriarchs of Bryn Mawr College

Course Description

The Math Matriarchs of Bryn Mawr College

Speaker: Bill Dunham

Friday March 12

10:00AM - 11:00AM

(Registration closes March 11 at NOON)

Over its first 50 years, Bryn Mawr College boasted three remarkable mathematicians who, one after the other, left deep footprints upon the institution.  They were Professors Charlotte Angas Scott (British), Anna Pell Wheeler (American), and Emmy Noether (German).  In this lecture, we meet these women and flesh out their biographies with plenty of local color … not to mention a real-life assassin in a supporting role.  From 1885 to 1935, they gave Bryn Mawr a record of women in mathematics unsurpassed by any institution, anywhere.

 NOTE:  This talk is aimed at the general audience.  No mathematics will appear. 

Bill Dunham is a Research Associate in Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College.