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The names of four women associated with mathematics in antiquity are often cited: Theano, Aglaonice, Ban Zhao and Hypatia. But what do historical records tell us about them? And what can we learn about the social dynamics of the relationship between women and mathematics?

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Ancient peoples used numbers for purely practical purposes: to count and enumerate. Five centuries before the Common Era, after travelling the world, a Greek scholar named Pythagoras returned certain that the original order of the World was Number, thereby turning it into a philosophical concept.

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Émilie du Châtelet is often presented as the translator of Newton and the woman who introduced Leibniz's and Wolff's thought to France. On that view, she would be no more than a translator and a popularizer. In reality, she is far more than that: she is above all a scholar and a philosopher.

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