Journal of Women's History
Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 1995
E-ISSN: 1527-2036 Print ISSN: 1042-7961
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2010.0322
E-ISSN: 1527-2036 Print ISSN: 1042-7961
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2010.0322
James J. Tattersall
Shawnee L. McMurran
Hertha Ayrton: A Persistent Experimenter
Journal of Women's History - Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 1995, pp. 86-112
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of Women's History Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 1995 E-ISSN: 1527-2036
Print ISSN: 1042-7961 Hertha Ayrton:A Persistent Experimenter James J.
Tattersall and Shawnee L. McMurran James J. Tattersall James J.
Tattersall is a professor of mathematics at Providence College, where
he has taught since 1969. He is currently visiting professor of
mathematics at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His
current research is on the early Lucasian professor of mathematics at
Cambridge University. Shawnee L. McMurran Shawnee L. McMurran is an
assistant professor of mathematics at Providence College. She was
educated at the University of California at Riverside. Her background
is in partial differential equations and her current research interest
is in the collaborative works of the Cambridge mathematicians Dame Mary
Cartwright, F.R.S., and J. E. Littlewood, F.R.S. Footnotes * From this
point in the text, Hertha Marks will be referred to as "Ayrton" or
"Hertha Ayrton," since after her marriage she used this name. Notes The
authors wish to thank Kate Perry, Archivist at Girton College,
Cambridge; Alan Clark, Deputy Librarian of The Royal Society of London;
Kevin Johnson of the National Museum of Science and Industry, London;
Joan Mason of...