Mathematics is often associated with negative thoughts and memories – mostly due to the way in which it was learned in school. But maths plays a big part in our […]
READ MOREMaryam Mirzakhani: Geometer par-excellence
There are a number of reasons to include the late Iranian scholar Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017) as the final entry in this blog series. The first is that she was the […]
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Hypatia’s contributions involved several fields of mathematics including advanced geometry, computation methods, and applications to astronomy. Let me begin with a coin question. Think about the steps you will use […]
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lbert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Isaac Newton are prominent names among the STEM community that we have all heard and learned since childhood. But what about the women who have […]
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