CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Narayan, Sneha |
|---|---|
| Title | Making it in the mathematical community: the case of women mathematicians in Hungary |
| Summary | In this paper, I trace the experience of several women mathematicians in Budapest, and examine the circumstances under which they achieved success in their field. I first introduce the existing research on women in science (largely conducted in the United States), which includes a discussion on how science came to be masculinized, how being a woman and a scientist is perceived to be an apparent contradiction in public images of science, and the effect that community formation has on helping women build an identity for themselves as mathematicians. I then go on to analyze interviews of four different Hungarian women mathematicians using these theories, but also attempt to locate these experiences as a part of the historical development of mathematics in Budapest. Finally, I show that much of the theoretical literature broadly applies to the lives of Hungarian mathematicians as well, while highlighting a few key places in which the experience of Hungarian women mathematicians differs from the experience of American mathematicians. |
| Supervisor | Vedres, Balázs; Fodor, Éva |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/narayan_sneha.pdf |
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