SJF Dept of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics

Why Some Olympic Swimmers Think About Math in the Pool (Gift Article) In a sport where gold and silver can be separated by a fraction of a second, many of the world’s top swimmers now scour data for even the smallest edge.

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Steven Strogatz on Twitter “This talk on Sep 7 by is not to be missed! Sign up FREE at https://t.co/J7gHPE42Gg. The talk is about two amazing shapes (polyhedra) hiding in the multiplication table. Federico is a brilliant mathematician and lecturer. Should be great!”

Using Math To Teach The Rules Of Baseball A summer camp in New York City is using the basics of baseball to make math more fun, Adam Kuperstein reports.

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This professor studies each swimmer as a math problem. It's helped them to be faster Heading into national swimming championships, the University of Virginia relies on a mathematician, cameras and sensors to help each swimmer perform their best.

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Dr. Anna Kiesenhofer, a mathematician at the EPFL researching nonlinear partial differential equations which arise in mathematical physics, won an Olympic gold medal in the Women's Individual Road Race.

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Congratulations, PME class spring 2021, and thank you for your hard work and the mathematical community you have built!

In first pic, L-R: Natalie Petruzelli, MacGregor Winegard, Kailyn Woodard, Clarissa Hensler, Rachael Osterhoudt

Second pic: L-R: Rachael, Clarissa, Kailyn, MacGregor, and Natalie taking PME Oath with fan Dr. Ryan Gantner

5th post on our Women in Mathematics Series

Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was the first major Russian female mathematician and a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world. She was the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe and was also one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor.

Despite her obvious talent for mathematics, she could not complete her education in Russia. At that time, women there were not allowed to attend universities. In order to study abroad, she needed written permission from her father (or husband). Together with her husband, she emigrated from Russia in 1867.

In Octoer 1870, she moved to Berlin, where she took private lessons with Karl Weierstrass, as the university would not even allow her to audit classes. In 1874 she presented three papers—on partial differential equations, on the dynamics of Saturn's rings and on elliptic integrals—to the University of Göttingen as her doctoral dissertation. With the support of Weierstrass, this earned her a doctorate in mathematics summa cm laude, bypassing the usual required lectures and examinations.

She thereby became the first woman in Europe to hold that degree. Her paper on partial differential equations contains what is now commonly known as the Cauchy–Kovalevskaya theorem, which gives conditions for the existence of solutions to a certain class of those equations.

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