European women in mathematics : proceedings of the 13th General Meeting, University of Cambridge, UK, 3-6 September 2007 / Catherine Hobbs, Sylvie Paycha, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

European Women in Mathematics. General Meeting (13th : 2007 : University of Cambridge)

Contributor:

Hobbs, Catherine.

Paycha, Sylvie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women mathematicians--Europe--Congresses.

Women mathematicians.

Women in mathematics--Europe--Congresses.

Women in mathematics.

Mathematics--Congresses.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 199 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers a unique collection of outstanding contributions from renowned women mathematicians who met in Cambridge for a conference under the auspices of European Women in Mathematics (EWM). These contributions serve as excellent surveys of their subject areas, including symplectic topology, combinatorics and number theory. The volume moreover sheds light on prominent women mathematicians who worked in Cambridge in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by providing an insightful historical introduction at the beginning of the volume. The volume concludes with short contributions from women mathematicians from across Europe working in various areas of mathematics ranging from group theory to magnetic fields.

Contents:

Deformation quantisation and connections / S. Gutt

What is symplectic geometry? / D. McDuff

Regular permutation groups and Cayley graphs / C. E. Praeger

Arithmetic of elliptic curves through the ages / R. Sujatha

Tricritical points and liquid-solid critical lines / A. Aitta

Elastic waves in rods of rectangular cross section / A. A. Bondarenko

Natural extensions for the golden mean / K. Dajani & C. Kalle

An equivariant tietze extension theorem for proper actions of locally compact groups / A. Feragen

On uniform tangential approximation by lacunary power series / G. Harutyunyan

Cyclic division algebras in apace-time coding : a brief overview / C. Hollanti

And what became of the women? / C. Series

Three great Girton mathematicians / R. M. Williams

What about the women now? / R. M. Williams

Mathematics in society (taking into account gender-aspects) - a one-semester course (BSc) / C. Scharlach.

Notes:

Selected conference papers.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612758348

9781282758346

1282758349

9789814277686

9814277681

OCLC:

630166225