With pioneering women in mathematics and its accompanying website green and laduke provide a wealth of data to counter the effects of erasure that so often accompany womens lives bshm bulletin journal of the british society for the history of mathematics. With pioneering women in mathematics and its accompanying website green and laduke provide a wealth of data to counter the effects of erasure that so often accompany womens lives bshm bulletin journal of the british society for the history of mathematics this book is well and thoroughly researched it provides a wealth of data in the form of charts and tables that present . Pioneering women in american mathematics the pre 1940 phds is a book on women in mathematicsit was written by judy green and jeanne laduke based on a long study beginning in 1978 and was published in 2009 by the american mathematical society and london mathematical society as volume 34 in their joint history of mathematics series unlike many previous works on the topic it aims at . Pioneering women in american mathematics the pre 1940 phds judy green and jeanne laduke publication year 2008 isbn 10 0 8218 4376 1 isbn 13 978 0 8218 4376 5 history of mathematics vol 34 this page is maintained by the authors contact information judy green 3883 connecticut ave nw 715 washington dc 20008 email judygreenmarymountedu jeanne laduke 3821 n alta vista terrace . More than 14 percent of the phds awarded in the united states during the first four decades of the twentieth century went to women a proportion not achieved again until the 1980s this book is the result of a study in which the authors identified all of the american women who earned phds in mathematics before 1940 and collected extensive biographical and bibliographical information about