The outmoded gender stereotype that women lack mathematical ability suffered a major blow in 2014, when Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to receive the Fields Medal, math’s most prestigious ...

Eighteenth-century mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi’s talent for languages let her see math in a new way. “The Witch of Agnesi” isn’t her, though. It’s a curve, described in her book Analytical ...

“For if at any time there can be an excuse for the rashness of a Woman who ventures to aspire to the subtleties of a science, which knows no bounds, not even those of infinity itself, it certainly ...

The witch of Agnesi, you may be disappointed to know, is a curve that math students generally learn about in calculus class. It doesn’t look much like a witch, or a hat or even a broomstick. It’s ...

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The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The outmoded gender stereotype that women lack mathematical ability suffered ...