Founders, Feminists, and a Fascist -- Some Notable Women in the Missouri Section of the MAA

Leon M. Hall

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66694-5_7

Founders, Feminists, and a Fascist -- Some Notable Women in the Missouri Section of the MAA

Leon M. Hall

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In the history of the Missouri Section of the MAA, some of the more interesting people who influenced the growth and development of the section through the years were and are women. In this chapter, we discuss the contributions of a few (certainly not all) of these women to the Missouri Section and mathematics as a whole, including Emily Kathryn Wyant (founder of KME), Margaret F. Willerding (who dealt with sexism in the 1940s), Maria Castellani (an official in Mussolini’s Italy before coming to America), and T. Christine Stevens (co-founder of Project NExT). Without them, and others like them, both mathematics and the Missouri Section of the MAA would be poorer.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66694-5_7
State	Published - Jan 1 2017

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Landing
MAA
Mathematics
Missouri
Myth
Staircase
Women

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