Math Monday: Highlighting Ladies Mathematicians within the Classroom

Use these ready-to-go slides to have a good time Ladies’s Historical past Month. Discover profiles of 10 ladies mathematicians, full with assets and dialogue questions.

Discover ready-to-go slides for these profiles – and extra! – within the Math in Motion slide deck.

Dr. Kimberly Ayers

Dr. Kimberly Ayers is an Assistant Professor at California State College San Marcos, doing analysis in dynamical techniques and ergodic principle.

Dr. Juliette Bruce

Dr. Juliette Bruce is a postdoctoral analysis affiliate within the Division of Arithmetic at Brown College.

Shakuntala Devi

Often known as “The Human Laptop”, Shakuntala Devi was a well-known mathematician who holds the Guinness World Report for the “Quickest Human Computation.” Along with her computational prowess, Devi was additionally an outspoken LGBTQ+ advocate, novelist, and political hopeful. 

Dr. Pamela Harris

Dr. Harris is a Mexican-American mathematician and professor on the College of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. She additionally co-founded Lathisms.org, a platform that options the contributions of Latine and Hispanic mathematicians and co-hosts the podcast Mathematically Uncensored.

Dr. Euphemia Lofton Haynes

Dr. Haynes was a outstanding educator, chief, and advocate for Black college students. She was the primary Black lady to earn a doctorate in arithmetic in 1943.

Josephine Jue

Josephine Jue is a mathematician and aerospace technologist who spent greater than thirty years working behind-the-scenes on computer systems and software program at NASA (from the American Mathematical Society).

Dr. Marissa Kawehi Loving

Dr. Loving is an assistant professor on the College of Wisconsin-Madison. She is “the primary Native Hawaiian lady to acquire a PhD in arithmetic… not the primary Native Hawaiian lady to develop mathematical instruments to resolve issues or to interact deeply in analytical exploration.” (from her web site)

Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani

Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani was a highly-decorated mathematician who believed “it’s important to spend some vitality and energy to see the fantastic thing about math”. She received the Fields Medal in 2014 for her distinctive contributions to the research of the dynamics and geometry of mathematical objects known as Riemann surfaces.

Dr. Swati Patel

Dr. Patel is a mathematical biologist and an assistant professor at Oregon State College Math Division. Her analysis focuses on modeling inhabitants dynamics of various dwelling organisms. In 2019, she co-founded the Math For All convention, to foster inclusivity in arithmetic analysis. (from her web site)

Dr. Gladys West

Dr. Gladys West is a mathematician whose work modeling the Earth was instrumental to the event of the GPS techniques we nonetheless use right now. She has a bachelor’s and grasp’s diploma in Arithmetic, in addition to a grasp’s diploma and PhD in public administration.