Math for girls
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- April
- 9
The College of New Rochelle is holding its first Sonia Kovalevsky Day for High School girls this coming Saturday. The event is aimed at encouraging young women to continue on with their math studies in college, and will include courses on topics like cryptography as well as career advice.
The keynote speaker is Dr. Maryam Hastings, a mathematics professor at Fordham University and founder of the Marymount Science/Mathematics Workshop for High School Girls. Hastings was featured in the book She Does Math!, published by the Mathematics Association of America.
The event is named for Kovalevsky, described as the most widely known Russian mathematician of the late 19th century: “A distinguished writer and advocate for women’s rights, her prominence as a professional mathematician reached its apex in 1888 when she received the prestigious Prix Bordin from the French Academie des Sciences for one of her research papers. The selection committee – unaware that the writer was a woman—voted unanimously in favor of the winning paper.”
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