She does math! : real-life problems from women on the job / Marla Parker, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parker, Marla.

Mathematical Association of America.

Series:

Classroom resource materials

Classroom Resource Materials, v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in mathematics--United States.

Women in mathematics.

Mathematics--Problems, exercises, etc.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 253 pages : illustrations, portraits)

Place of Publication:

[Washington, DC] : Mathematical Association of America, c1995.

System Details:

Mode of access : World Wide Web

Summary:

Presents the career histories of 38 professional women describing how much math each took in high school and college, how she chose her field of study, and how she ended up in her current job. Each woman presents several problems typical of those she had to solve on the job using mathematics.

Contents:

Environmental Psychology / Susan C. Knasko

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.002 Software Engineering; Computer Science / Mary E. Campione

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.003 Archaeology / Shelley J. Smith

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.004 Mathematics and Computer Science / Maryam Shayegan Hastings

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.005 Civil Engineering / Donna McConnaha Sheehy

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.006 Mathematics / Linda Valdés

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.039 Electrical Engineering / Jill S. Baylor

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.036 Physics; X-ray Astronomy Research / Lynn R. Cominsky

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.009 Mathematics / Renate McLaughlin

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.039 Physics; Astronaut Crew Training Instructor / Rena Haldiman

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.011 Business Data Processing / Elaine Anselm

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.012 Software Engineering; Real Estate Investment / Smadar Agmon

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.013 Quality Engineering / Christine Eckerle

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.014 Health Science / Sally Irene Lipsey

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.015 Nursing Education / Janean D. Bowen

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.016 Electrical Engineering; Space Systems / Amy C. R. Gerson

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.017 Oil and Gas Accounting / Marilyn K. Halpin

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.018 Business Administration Higher Education / Martha Leva

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.019 Aerospace Engineering / Caroline P. Nguyen

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.020 Structural Engineering / Linda K. Lanham

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.021 Computer Science / Marla Parker

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.022 Mathematics / Eileen L. Poiani

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.039 Dietetics

Foodservice Management and Nutrition / Nancy Powers Siler

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.024 Electrical Engineering / Fahmida N. Chowdhury

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.036 Chemical Engineering, retired / Rosalie Dinkey

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.026 Software Engineering / Susan J. LoVerso

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.027 Immunology and Microbiology / Eileen Thatcher

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.028 Mechanical Engineering / Julie A. Pollitt

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.029 HMO Pharmacy Practice and Management / Helen Townsend-Beteet

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.030 Ophthalmology / Jane D. Kivlin

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.031 Electrical Engineering / Sharon G. Lum

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.036 Fish Pathology / Beth MacConnell

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.033 Computer Science and Computer Graphics / Barbara Swetman

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.034 Mathematics and Computing / Polly Moore

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.035 Electrical Engineering / Lynn Stiglich

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.036 Astronomy / Nancy G. Roman

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.037 Author / Claudia Zaslavsky

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.038 Mathematics / Jean E. Taylor

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.039 Reflections on WAM / Eileen L. Poiani

https://www.ams.org/clrm/004 https://doi.org/10.5948/UPO9781614441052.040

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2012

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: She does math! :

ISBN:

9781614441052 (online)

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