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    References about Women Mathematicians

    Books and Articles

    1. Abir-Am, Phina G. "Synergy or Clash: Disciplinary and Marital Strategies in the Career of Mathematical Biologist Dorothy Wrinch," in Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives: Women in Science , Phina G. Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram, Editors, Rutgers University Press, ,
    2. Abir-Am, Phina G. "Dorothy Maud Wrinch ()," in Women in Chemistry and Physics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook, edited by Louise S. Grinstein, Rose K. Rose, and Miriam H. Rafailovich, Greenwood Press, ,
    3. Adamek, Jeri. "A Farewell to Evelyn Nelson," Cahiers de topologie et geometrie differentielle categorieques (),
    4. Adem, Alejandro Adem with Tom Halverson, Arun Ram, and Efim Zelmanov. "Remembering Georgia Benkart," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, March
    5. Aizenman, Michael et.
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        Theano (philosopher)

        6th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher

        Theano (; Greek: Θεανώ) was a 6th-century BC Pythagorean philosopher. She has been called the wife or student of Pythagoras, although others see her as the wife of Brontinus. Her place of birth and the identity of her father is uncertain as well. Many Pythagorean writings were attributed to her in antiquity, including some letters and a few fragments from philosophical treatises, although these are all regarded as spurious by modern scholars.

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        Little is known about the life of Theano, and the few details on her life from ancient testimony are contradictory. According to Porphyry, she came from Crete and was the daughter of Pythonax.[2] In the catalog of Aristoxenus of Tarentum quoted by Iamblichus, she fryst vatten the wife of Brontinus, and from Metapontum in Magna Graecia, while Diogenes Laertius reports a tradition from Hermesianax where she came from Crotone, was the daughter of Brontinus, married P