Mathematics and Statistics

Spotlight: Women in mathematics

Below are titles in the McGill Library collection, ordered by publication date. If you prefer to listen to a podcast, I can recommend Lost Women of Science.

General titles

• Fifty years of women in mathematics: Reminiscences, history, and visions for the future of AWM (2022; ebook)
• 12 Bytes: How we got here where we might go next (2021; ebook)
• Hidden figures: The American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race (2016; ebook)
• Rise of the rocket girls: The women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars (2016; print)
• The world of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician of God  (2007; print and ebook)
• Change is possible: Stories of women and minorities in mathematics (2005; print)
• Women becoming mathematicians: Creating a professional identity in post-World War II America (2000; print)
• Women in mathematics: Scaling the heights (1997; print)
• Women in mathematics: The addition of difference (1997; print) 
• Women in mathematics (1974; print)

Biographies

• The legacy of Tatjana Afanassjewa: Philosophical insights from the work of an original physicist and mathematician (2021; ebook)
• Sophie Germain: Revolutionary mathematician (2020; ebook)
• Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley (2017; ebook)
• NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson (2017; ebook)
• Iris Runge: A life at the crossroads of mathematics, science, and industry (2012; ebook)
• Julia, a life in mathematics (1996; print)

Sofya Kovalevskaya

• Remembering Sofya Kovalevskaya  (2011; ebook)
• Little sparrow: A portrait of Sophia Kovalevsky (1983; print)
• Sonia Kovalevsky: Biography and autobiography (1895; ebook)

Ada Lovelace

• Ada Lovelace: The making of a computer scientist (2018; print)
• The bride of science: Romance, reason, and Byron's daughter (1999; print)
• The calculating passion of Ada Byron (1986; print)

Emmy Noether

• Emmy Noether: Mathematician extraordinaire (2021; ebook)
• Proving it her way: Emmy Noether, a life in mathematics (2020; ebook)
• Emmy Noether: The mother of modern algebra (2008; ebook)
• Emmy Noether: A tribute to her life and work (1981; print)
• Emmy Noether, 1882-1935  (1981; print and ebook)

Mary Somerville

• The ascent of Mary Somerville in 19th century society (2017; ebook)
• Mary Somerville and the world of science (2014; ebook)
• Mary Somerville and the cultivation of science, 1815-1840 (1983; ebook)
• Personal recollections, from early life to old age (1874; print and ebook)

MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive: Biographies of over 3000 mathematicians with supporting materials.

• Biographies of female mathematicians

Learn more about women mathematicians from this project at Agnes Scott College: Biographies of Women Mathematicians