Mathematical women—creating historical resources

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Notes

¹ In the case of Cambridge and Oxford, women were not formally awarded degrees until 1947 and 1920 respectively, so I have started from the dates (1882 and 1883) when women were allowed to take the university examinations, and have treated the results of those examinations as graduation-equivalents.

² www.history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk

³ www.history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Davis/index.html

⁴ Girton College Register 1869–1946 (1948); Newnham College Register Volume I 1871–1923 (1979) and Volume II 1924–1950 (1981).

⁵ More than 300 women who graduated in mathematics up to 1903 are featured in the Registers mentioned in the previous footnote. A short (prosopographical) account of them is to appear in a subsequent issue of BSHM Bulletin.

⁶ For those who do not know of Philippa Fawcett's achievement, there is a biography on the website whose address is given in the following footnote, which also contains the Catalogue to the Collection.

⁷ www.lms.ac.uk/library/special-collections