‘Ever yours, mathematically’: women’s letters and the mathematical imagination

IF 2 3区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Gender and Education Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI:10.1080/09540253.2023.2265283

Maria Tamboukou

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Abstract

In this paper the author looks at the letters of two renowned women mathematicians and scientists of the Victorian period, Mary Somerville and Ada Lovelace, while also considering the imperceptibility of Sophie Germain, an important French mathematician and philosopher in their epistolary exchanges and philosophical writings. Drawing on the importance of mathematical correspondences and epistolary education in the creation, circulation and dissemination of knowledge, as well as in processes of formal and informal learning, the author argues that Lovelace’s and Somerville’s letters leave traces of a remarkable genealogical line of women’s mentorship and personal relations in the nineteenth century world of British mathematics in the backdrop of contradictory discourses around gender, mathematics, and science education.

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“永远属于你，数学”:女性书信与数学想象力

在本文中，作者研究了维多利亚时期两位著名的女数学家和科学家玛丽·萨默维尔和阿达·洛夫莱斯的信件，同时也考虑了索菲·热尔曼，一位重要的法国数学家和哲学家，在他们的书信交流和哲学著作中的不可感知性。根据数学书信和书信教育在知识的创造、流通和传播以及正式和非正式学习过程中的重要性，作者认为，在19世纪英国数学世界中，在围绕性别、数学、还有科学教育。

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Gender and Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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