Dale DeBakcsy
It Came from Teichmüller Space! The All-Too-Brief Mathematical Adventures of Maryam Mirzakhani
A square, who works as a lawyer in the two-dimensional world of Flatland, sits down with his hexagonal grandson: Taking nine squares,...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 6
Primal Screams: Sophie Germain’s Mathematical Labours
It is a well-known fact of humanity that the chances of a group of people electing to do something decent and necessary is inversely...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jan 15
Sofia Kovalevskaya: Love Makes all the Partial Difference
Everybody needs love, but for some the striving after it so dominates their every action and decision that it becomes impossible to ever...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Dec 26, 2023
Mary Somerville: British Mathematical Prometheus
In the 1750s, when France was foundering scientifically in the Cartesian shallows, it took Émilie du Châtelet’s French translation of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Dec 13, 2023
Sex, Cards and Calculus: A Day with Émilie du Châtelet
In popular mythology, the 1687 publication of Newton’s Principia was the culminating moment when one human told the world how the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Nov 2, 2023
The Algebraist of Baghdad: Sutayta Al’ Mahamali’s Medieval Mathematics.
It is a thousand years ago. Europe is a stumbling, superstition-addled giant, depleting its energies on visions of holy violence and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Oct 9, 2023
The Billion Roads from Here to There: The Graph Theory Combinatorics of Fan Chung
‘Well, some go this way, some go that way. But as for me, myself, personally, I prefer the short-cut.’ – The Cheshire Cat Every morning...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jul 21, 2023
A History of Women in Mathematics Gets Release Date!
Mark your calendars! The third book in my Trailblazers of Women in STEM series for Pen & Sword Books, A History of Women in Mathematics,...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Jun 27, 2023
Genius Overcome: The Destruction of Catherine de Parthenay.
The life of Catherine de Parthenay (1554–1631) was dominated by national religious conflict and her decision to take a pivotal role of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
May 9, 2023
Theano of Croton and the Pythagorean Women of Ancient Greece
In a small but soon-to-be-revered town in Southern Italy, 2,500 years ago, a group of men and women gathered, united by the proposition...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Varieties: The Life and Mathematics of Hanna Neumann.
Of all the realms of mathematics, there are few where more people feel more at home than in the safe harbours of algebra. From the age of...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Impossible Creatures and How to Make Them: The Topological Legacy of Mathematician Mary Ellen Rudin
There’s a lot to like about plain old, everyday space. No matter where you are, there’s always a way to get to where you need to go, and...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Emmy Noether Solves the Universe
‘Momentum is always conserved, except when it isn’t.’ In secondary school physics, we learn all manner of conservation laws, one at a...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Fearless Symmetry: Dorothy Wrinch and the Founding of Mathematical Biochemistry
By attempting everything, Dorothy Wrinch ended up accomplishing nothing. For half a century, this was the standard final verdict on the...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Expectations Defied: The Algebraic Journey of Raman Parimala
If you have been reading this series over the years, you’re used to a particular narrative sequence: (1) Brilliant woman researcher...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Letting Loose the Dogs of Chaos: Mary Lucy Cartwright’s Pioneering Portrayals of Functions Behaving
Our concept of living in a universe with a knowable and predictable future has taken two stunning blows in the last century, first from...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Equilibrium States: Tatyana Alexeyevna Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa and Statistical Mechanics.
Whereas few European scientists escaped the politico-intellectual gnash of the 1930s unscathed, arguably none faced quite the looming...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Non-Linear: How Mathematical Lone Wolf Karen Uhlenbeck Found Her Pack
When you first walk into secondary school your first year and plop yourself nervously into a desk in the back of your geometry class...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Hilda Geiringer and the Curious Behavior of Stressed Metals
Beholding a bar of metal, it seems an object almost primal in its simplicity. Solid, reliable, the stuff of which cities are made. Peek...
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Dale DeBakcsy
Apr 25, 2023
Spherical Triangles and Domineering Males: The Saga of Grace Chisholm Young
When Grace Chisholm, at age 28, married the mathematician William Henry Young, she had every prospect of a brilliant career before her....
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