How much longer will the Nobel committee continue to deny talented women the Nobel awards that they rightly deserve?
Laura Maria Caterina Bassi received her Ph.D. at 21 years of age. She was the first woman to earn a professorship in physics at a university. As a trailblazer for women in STEM, she was one of the first women in science to accomplish so much! Her story is truly memorable.
Archimedes was an infamous and remarkable scientist who founded many foundational principles and theories in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and engineering.
His parents raised him as a Quaker with earnest values: to live one’s life, not on a set of beliefs or utterances of God, but rather to exist as a testimony to the world.
Math is part of our genetic makeup, and history proves it to be true!
There is a paper on Academia that I posted years ago, proudly claiming that Hypatia was the world’s first female mathematician. It’s humbling what years of research will teach you. It so turns out that Hypatia was NOT the world’s first female mathematician. Other women taught mathematics long before Hypatia, including the mathematician Pandrosion. She was one of the first
During my visit to the Getty Villa, in Malibu, California, I discovered this stunning sculpture! This is a Roman sculpture of three of the nine muses. It dates back to the mid-third century BCE and was part of a large sarcophagus. The sculpture shows four individuals. The original sculpture held eight individuals, which included two more muses and two men.
Over the last three years, I have committed over 700 days working on a project about Alexandria, Egypt, the history of Alexandria, the works of the intellectuals, and of course Hypatia, who was an absolute academic STEM hero in every possible way. Working through this project, I found myself immersed in this idea about what it would be like to completely
I love researching Late Antiquity history. If you like history and historical science as much as I do, I am sure you share the same kind of thrill that I get when I discover an individual or individuals who hold the key to a trove of fascinating history. For years, I have been visiting https://www.Livius.org. It is a website of
Sometimes winning $1,000,000 is simple. You can scratch a ticket, or beat the statistical odds of a lottery drawing, or earn a spot on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Easy, right?! A not so easy way to win $1,000,000 is to solve one of the six remaining Millennium Problems. It used to be seven problems until Mathematician Grigori Perelman