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SUMMARY:Mary Somerville: being and becoming a mathematician in 19th-centur
 y Britain - Brigitte Stenhouse (Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:Mary Somerville (1780-1872) was unequivocally one of the best-
 known mathematicians in Britain during the first half of the nineteenth-ce
 ntury. Barred from receiving a formal education owing to her gender\, she 
 tenaciously pursued her studies through independent reading and the solvin
 g of problems published in Question and Answer sections of periodicals. Th
 rough her deft navigation of polite society in Edinburgh\, London\, and Pa
 ris\, she was able to build a reputation for herself as an expert in analy
 tical mathematics\, especially as it was practiced and taught in France. A
 t a time when British mathematics was widely perceived to be in decline\, 
 Somerville positioned herself within a network of mathematicians who saw t
 he adoption of analytical methods as the way to reform.\n\nThis talk will 
 consider how Somerville was able to overcome barriers of gender\, and util
 ise her relatively high social status\, in order to access highly advanced
  mathematical knowledge and gain for herself the title of mathematician. \
 nSpeakers:\nBrigitte Stenhouse (Oxford)
LOCATION:Maison Française d'Oxford\, 2-10 Norham Rd\, Oxford
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/6a54f3b7-4d75-45d5-b924-006fc5577313/
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