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For questions concerning the history of mathematical education and the use of historical topics in teaching mathematics.

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What female mathematician can I introduce to my High School students?

Alicia Boole Stott, the daughter of George Boole (Boolean Algebra), had a deep understanding of 4D geometry. She got married and lived the life that entailed back then (1890s and on). Coxeter gives …
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What female mathematician can I introduce to my High School students?

Adm. Grace Hopper earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at Yale (1934), helped program the Mark I (1944), developed the first compiler (1952) and some early computer languages, and worked on the development o …
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