Written by Frank Y. Wang

Pioneer Women in Chaos Theory

The general public has been made aware of the research field of “chaos” by the book of that title by James Gleick. This paper will focus on the achievements of Sonya Kovalevskaya, Mary Cartwright, and Mary Tsingou, whose pioneer works were not mentioned in Gleick’s book.

arXiv:0903.2671 [physics.hist-ph]

posted on 15/03/2009