Florence Nightingale: "What use were mathematics to a married woman?"
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Noel-Ann Bradshaw talks about Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. We learn about:
what you may not know about Florence Nightingale (time 0:21)
her early interest in mathematics and her parents' disapproval ( 0:49)
her early career and views on education (1:38)
the Crimean War (2:36)
her Polar Area Diagrams (3:34)
Nightingale's impact (4:06)
her work back in England (4:52)
Nightingale as statistician (5:32)
More information, worksheets and other resources for the undergraduate mathematics curriculum: www.beingamathematician.org
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