Subject: [mathfp 1629] Change is possible: Stories of Women and Minorities

From: asada akira <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:41:53 +0900

浅田です。
　ＡＭＳからタイトルのような本が近く（８月２１日　予定）出版されます。

Change is Possible: Stories of Women and Minorities in Mathematics -
Patricia Clark Kenschaft, Montclair State University - AMS, 2005,
approximately 212 pp., Softcover, ISBN 0-8218-3748-6, List: US$29, All
AMS Members: US$23, CHANGE
http://www.ams.org/bookstore-getitem/isbn=0-8218-3748-6

　多くのインタビューと記録調査に基づいてかかれているそうです。目次は

Chapter 1. Introdduction.
Chapter 2. With the help of good white man.
Chapter 3. Women and mathematics in the nineteenth century.
Chapter 4. The Twenties century: Mathematics and marriage.
Chapter 5. African Amwrican mathematicians from the eighteenth through    
the twentieth century.
Chapter 6. Latino mathematicians.
Chapter 7. Reawakening: The Association for Women in Mathematics.
Chapter 8. Skits tell what's happening around 1990.
Chapter 9. Woemn in mathematics now (2004).
Chapter 10. Minorities in mathematics now (2004).
Chapter 11. Conclusions.
Appendix (to Chapter 5): What were careers of 75 African American 
mathematicians of New Jersey in mid-1985?
 
です。アメリカについてはいろいろ批判もありますし　この本の内容についても
意見がありそうですが、こういう本をＡＭＳが出版する所は見習うべきでしょ
う。