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Founders, Feminists, and a Fascist – Some Notable Women in the Missouri Section of the MAA

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In the history of the Missouri Section of the MAA, some of the more interesting people who influenced the growth and development of the section through the years were and are women. In this chapter, we discuss the contributions of a few (certainly not all) of these women to the Missouri Section and mathematics as a whole, including Emily Kathryn Wyant (founder of KME), Margaret F. Willerding (who dealt with sexism in the 1940s), Maria Castellani (an official in Mussolini’s Italy before coming to America), and T. Christine Stevens (co-founder of Project NExT). Without them, and others like them, both mathematics and the Missouri Section of the MAA would be poorer.

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  1. Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO, USA

    Leon Hall

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Redlands, Redlands, California, USA

    Janet L. Beery

  2. Department of Mathematics, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA

    Sarah J. Greenwald

  3. Department of Mathematics, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, USA

    Jacqueline A. Jensen-Vallin

  4. Department of Mathematics, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, USA

    Maura B. Mast

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Hall, L. (2017). Founders, Feminists, and a Fascist – Some Notable Women in the Missouri Section of the MAA. In: Beery, J., Greenwald, S., Jensen-Vallin, J., Mast, M. (eds) Women in Mathematics. Association for Women in Mathematics Series, vol 10. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66694-5_7

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