Sun-young alice chang biography of abraham lincoln

  • My life as a mathematician started — as for many others who grew up in East Europe — with the high school mathematics olympiads.
  • We close out with a celebration of Wolf Prize recipient Charles Fefferman and memories of geometer Marcel Berger.
  • Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Princeton University.

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    List of women in mathematics

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    • Karen Aardal (born ), Norwegian and Dutch applied mathematician, theoretical computer scientist, and operations researcher
    • Hanan Mohamed Abdelrahman, Egyptian and Norwegian mathematics educator
    • Izabela Abramowicz (–), Polish mathematician and mathematics educator
    • L. D. Adams (–), British mathematics reformer, president of the Mathematical Association
    • Rachel Blodgett Adams (–), American mathematician, one of the earliest mathematics doctorates from Radcliffe College
    • Tatyana Afanasyeva (–), Russian-Dutch researcher in statistical mechanics, randomness, and geometry education
    • Amandine Aftalion (born ), French applied mathematician, studies superfluids and the mathematics of footracing
    • Maria Gaetana Agnesi (–), Italian mathematician and philosopher, possibly the first kvinnlig mathematics professor
    • Ilka Agricola (born ), German kunnig on differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics
    • Nkechi Agwu (born ), Afri

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      One Must Tell the Bees: Abraham Lincoln and the Final Education of Sherlock Holmes

      Written by J. Lawrence Matthews
      Review by Richard Henry Abramson

      In One Must Tell the Bees, a young Sherlock Holmes travels to America in , the last year of the Civil War. Zelig-like, Sherlock applies his emerging deductive talents to a mystery at the du Pont powder works, gets to know President Lincoln and his family and, when the President’s assassinated, plays a role in tracking down John Wilkes Booth. These events are depicted through a memoir written by Sherlock, and the narrative alternates between the memoir and the present, in which Dr. Watson is confronted by a murder on the train he has boarded in response to Sherlock’s urgent summons.

      Throughout, author J. Lawrence Matthews’ scholarship is impressive, whether he’s exposing famed detective Allen Pinkerton as an arrogant fraud, commenting on the moral complexities of Stonewall Jackson, or tracing Booth’s movements as he flees

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      The AWM Fellows Program

      I am very pleased to announce the class of AWM Fellows. This class was selected from a stellar group of people who have shown extraordinary dedication to creating a more inclusive mathematics community. I am grateful for all they do to increase the success and visibility of women in mathematics. Please join me in honoring the AWM Fellows at the AWM Reception and Awards Presentation as part of the JMM in Baltimore on Wednesday evening, January 16,

      &#; Ami Radunskaya, AWM President

      Class of AWM Fellows

      Hélène Barcelo, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

      For her extraordinary service to the community of women in mathematics, starting with the Berkeley undergraduate research program for women and continuing in her capacity as deputy director of MSRI, working for women at all stages of their careers.

      Lida Kittrell Barrett

      For her profound and long-lasting effect in diversifying the committees and leadership of the MAA, during and be

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