AAAS Science Careers has a nicely put-together booklet about some star women in science. Maybe you have a young friend or relative who would like a copy.
Posts Tagged as ‘math and gender’
January 29, 2009
Matching Algorithms and Reproductive Health: Part 1, Matchings Emerge from Social Science
Earlier this week, I was inspired by current events to launch a bold, crazy-sounding series about matching theory and its application to reproductive health. This first installment is a quick social history of the development of matching theory, largely influenced by (and fact-checked against) Lex Scrijver’s encyclopediac Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and Efficiency. His paper “On [...]
