Notas biográficas

June Barrow-Green is Emeritus Professor of History of Mathematics at the Open University, and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on the history of 19th–20th century western mathematics, and she has a special interest in the history of the gender gap in mathematics.

Her current work is on the development of dynamical systems post-Poincaré, and on the representation of women in mathematics. She is the author of Poincaré and The Three Body Problem, an editor of the Princeton Companion to Mathematics, and the co-author of the two-volume The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach.

She is chair of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics, a past President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, a winner of the Chandler Davis Prize for Expository Excellence and the Royal Society Wilkins-Bernal Medawar Medal (2021). Among her other interests are history of art and marathon running.

Talk title: "The historical representation of women in mathematics"

Abstract
From medieval times to the modern day, female mathematicians, real and fictional, have been represented in a variety of ways, both visually and verbally. By studying such representations, we learn about the women represented and about the attitudes prevailing at the time the representations were created. But deeper questions are invited. How did these representations shape the types of mathematical knowledge women were able to claim? What effect do these representations have on modern-day viewers and readers? Do they, for instance, continue to marginalise the mathematical expertise of women? How can they be used to encourage the participation of women in the mathematical community today?