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women in mathematics

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Lovelace

Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

We celebrate with some of our friends, all women doing pioneering work using machine learning in a wide range of applications.
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Krieger

Dynamic numbers

Holly Krieger has won a Whitehead Prize for work that combines number theory and dynamical systems.
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Bruna

Taming complexity

Maria Bruna has won a Whitehead Prize for finding a systematic way of simplifying complex systems.
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Women of mathematics

Celebrate female mathematicians with this selection of interviews and videos, which accompany the Women of Mathematics photo exhibition.
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Women of mathematics: Holly Krieger

Holly Krieger works in dynamical systems theory, in particular on chaotic systems. Some of her greatest mathematical moments have come from teaching students.
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Women of mathematics: Julia Gog

Julia Gog is a mathematical biologist, helping to understand how infectious diseases spread. One of her favourite eureka moments came while she was playing a computer game.
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Women of mathematics: Anne-Christine Davis

Anne-Christine Davis is a professor of theoretical physics whose long career has seen attitudes towards women change for the better. She had to put up with quite a lot at the start.