Women, apples, and mathematics. Interweaved. (Q2721031)

This is an interesting and amusing book on the role of women in mathematics in the past and present, ranging from the earliest Middle Age and Renaissance to the eminent contributions of Sonia Kovalevskaya (not Kovalevsky), Emmy Noether, Olga Taussky-Todd, and many others, to the mathematics of the last century. Due to the non-favorable circumstances of those times, these women usually did not receive the academic recognition they deserved, and it is quite a deplorable fact that even today women are drastically underrepresented in the academic world in many countries.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe book is not just a collection of bibliographical data and folkloristic stories, but the reader learns ``en passant'' a lot of interesting facts from elementary geometry, algebra, and analysis. Consequently, this nice small book may be highly recommended to every non-mathematician who wants to get some idea of this important part of science history.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThis is the seventh issue in a series called ``Mathematics and its Personalities'' which is regularly published in Spanish by Nivola Editors. For the sake of completeness we just mention the titles of the preceding six issues: 1.- Archimedes: Around the Circle (1999; Zbl 0960.01004); 2.- Fermat: The Magician of Numbers (1999; Zbl 0966.01025); 3.- Newton: On the beginning of Modern Science (1999; Zbl 0966.01027); 4.- Cardano and Tartaglia: Mathematics during the Italian Renaissance (2000; Zbl 0957.01004); 5.- Galois: Revolution and Mathematics (2000; Zbl 0959.01023); 6.- Euler: The Master of us all (2000; Zbl 0992.01007). It would be nice to have English translations of any of these popular books in order to provide them with the larger readership they deserve.