Pioneer Women in Chaos Theory
History and Philosophy of Physics
2009-09-30 v1
Abstract
The general public has been made aware of the research field of "chaos" by the book of that title by James Gleick. This paper will focus on the achievements of Sonya Kovalevskaya, Mary Cartwright, and Mary Tsingou, whose pioneer works were not mentioned in Gleick's book.
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@article{arxiv.0903.2671,
title = {Pioneer Women in Chaos Theory},
author = {Frank Y. Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.2671},
year = {2009}
}
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Contribution to the conference "Mathematics, Information Technology, and Education" held at Orenburg State University, Russia, Dec 7-9, 2008