scholarly journals Joining a Mathematical Research Community

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (07) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Leslie Hogben ◽  
T. Christine Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Research Community ◽  
Mathematical Research

scholarly journals Training Research Mathematicians circa 1900

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-83
Author(s):  
Karen Hunger Parshall
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Mathematical Research ◽  
American System ◽  
Research Level ◽  
Training Research ◽  
Level Training

An American mathematical research community emerged over the course of the closing quarter of the nineteenth century. In its efforts to shape itself, it looked abroad and especially to Germany, France, and Great Britain, three countries long established as mathematical leaders. What it found there were three very different systems for training future mathematical researchers. This chapter compares and contrasts those systems—at the same time that it examines the American system ultimately influenced by them—as they had evolved by the turn of the twentieth century. In so doing, it casts a comparative eye on what have traditionally been treated as four largely separate and distinct national mathematical communities and identifies shared standards of and practices in research-level training as a critical component of the internationalization of the field in the twentieth century.

Sylvester And Scott

1982 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 490-494
Author(s):  
Patricia C. Kenschaft ◽  
KAILA KATZ
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Mathematical Research ◽  
Early American ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Do So

Two British mathematicians, both the victims of discrimination in their native country, were instrumental in stimulating the mathematical research community in the United States. James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) and Charlotte Angas Scott (1858-1931) inspired and trained many younger mathematicians here, served as editors of the first continuing mathematical research journal in this country, and contributed substantial research to the early American journals. Both overcame obstacles in their careers and promoted the study of mathematics by young women at a time when it was unpopular to do so.

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