Instructing the Mathematical Imagination
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Instructing the Mathematical Imagination: Charlotte Angas Scott and Bryn Mawr College, 1880s to 1920s(History of Mathematics)

Instructing the Mathematical Imagination: Charlotte Angas Scott and Bryn Mawr College, 1880s to 1920s(History of Mathematics)


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This book examines the creation and character of mathematical training at Bryn Mawr College between 1885 and 1926 under the leadership of Charlotte Angas Scott. Though designated as a college, Bryn Mawr boasted the world’s first graduate degree programs in which women taught women. Through detailed analysis of Scott’s publications, student dissertations, and institutional records - including the college’s Journal Club Notebooks - the author reconstructs how a sustained, collaborative, and visually grounded style of mathematics emerged in this setting. Rather than focusing on biographical exceptionalism, the study situates Scott and her students within broader shifts in the American mathematical community, including changing access to education, publication, and professional networks. Following Scott’s own trajectory from England to the United States, the chapters explore the development of the mathematics department and trace themes such as algebraic representation in geometry, refined visual intuition, and early topology. The work addresses institutional constraints and the pedagogical means through which students learned to do original mathematics in a time of limited professional opportunity. The book rewards those interested in the disciplinary, epistemological, and material conditions of mathematical research. The technical content is within the reach of advanced undergraduate students. It is of particular value to historians of science, historians of gender, scholars of mathematics education, and practicing geometers and topologists curious about the histories of their fields.

Table of Contents:
A Girton girl and the lady wrangler Generals without armies: Mathematics at Cambridge beyond the Tripos To organize a department of mathematics Bryn Mawr in the mathematical landscape toward the end of the nineteenth century Motivation: To trace an unsuspected connection Theme: Distinguishing between appearance and reality Technique: Curve tracing Better off in Noah’s Ark: Bryn Mawr and professional mathematical societies Pure imaginaries in the Mathematical Journal Club Notebook Branches, knots, and topological research The other half of the Bryn Mawr mathematics department Readers, administrators, and professoresses Remembering Bryn Mawr mathematics Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Jemma Lorenat, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781470474935
  • Publisher: American Mathematical Society
  • Publisher Imprint: American Mathematical Society
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: History of Mathematics
  • ISBN-10: 147047493X
  • Publisher Date: 08 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Sub Title: Charlotte Angas Scott and Bryn Mawr College, 1880s to 1920s


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