Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
A look at the two hundred women who earned Ph.D.’s in mathematics from 1940 to 1959, and the complex changes in our society during that era affecting their career development and identities as mathematicians.
Guests
- Margaret A.M. Murray PhD author of "Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America" (Pub: MIT Press, Cambridge MA); also Associate Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
- Cora Sodosky PhD past President of The Association for Women in Mathematics; also Professor of Mathematics at Howard University
- Evelyn Granville PhD, retired mathematician
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