News from the world of maths: The Plus podcast: Women in mathematics

Submitted by plusadmin on October 15, 2007

Monday, October 15, 2007

We visit the European Women in Mathematics conference and talk to two leading mathematicians, Caroline Series and Cheryl Praeger.

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