paper

Women mathematicians in France in the mid-twentieth century

arXiv:1502.07597

Abstract

An account of the careers of the five women who completed a doctorate in mathematics in France before 1960 and became internationally known scientists, followed by a more general description of the place of women on the mathematical scene in France between 1930 and 1960.

To appear in the BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics