Against All Odds: Women’s Ways to Mathematical Research Since 1800

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-8
 Internationality: Women in Felix Klein’s Courses at the University of Göttingen (1893–1920)  (Renate Tobies)....Pages 9-38
 Academic Education for Women at the University of Würzburg, Bavaria  (Katharina Spieß)....Pages 39-71
 Women and Mathematics at the Universities in Prague  (Martina Bečvářová)....Pages 73-111
Front Matter ....Pages 113-119
 Grace Chisholm Young, William Henry Young, Their Results on the Theory of Sets of Points at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, and a Controversy with Max Dehn  (Elisabeth Mühlhausen)....Pages 121-132
 Emma S. and Wladimir S. Woytinsky: An Unusual Couple in Statistics  (Annette B. Vogt)....Pages 133-150
 Stanisława and Otton Nikodym  (Danuta Ciesielska)....Pages 151-175
Front Matter ....Pages 177-183
 Arithmetic and Memorial Practices by and Around Sophie Germain in the 19th Century  (Jenny Boucard)....Pages 185-230
 Dorothy Wrinch, 1894–1976  (Marjorie Senechal)....Pages 231-248
 Living by Numbers: The Strategies and Life Stories of Mid-Twentieth Century Danish Women Mathematicians  (Lisbeth Fajstrup, Anne Katrine Gjerløff, Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen)....Pages 249-277
Front Matter ....Pages 279-279
 Hearsay, Not-So-Big Data and Choice: Understanding Science and Maths Through the Lives of Men Who Supported Women  (Paola Govoni)....Pages 281-314
Back Matter ....Pages 315-319