Constance bowman reid biography

Constance Bowman Reid (January 3, 1918 – October 14, 2010) was the.
Constance Bowman Reid was the author of several biographies of mathematicians and popular books about mathematics.
Constance Reid, an English teacher who found a second career as a biographer of major 19th- and 20th-century mathematicians, died Oct. 14 at her home in San.

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Reid, Constance (Bowman)

REID, Constance (Bowman). American, b. 1918. Genres: Education, Mathematics/Statistics. Career: Teacher in San Diego, CA, 1939-50; freelance writer, 1950-. Publications: Slacks and Callouses (as Constance Bowman), 1944, 2nd ed., 1999; From Zero to Infinity: What Makes Numbers Interesting, 1956, 4th ed., 1992; Introduction to Higher Mathematics: For the General Reader, 1959; A Long Way from Euclid, 1963, rev. ed., 2004; Hilbert, 1970; Courant in Goettingen and New York: The Story of an Improbable Mathematician, 1976; Neyman: From Life, 1982; Hilbert-Courant, 1986; (with D.J. Albers and G.L. Alexanderson) International Mathematical Congresses: An Illustrated History, 1893-1986, 1986, 2nd ed., 1987; (with Albers and Alexanderson) More Mathematical People, 1990; The Search for E.T. Bell, Also Known as John Taine, 1993; Julia, a Life in Mathematics, 1996. Contributor to periodicals. Address: 70 Piedmont St, San Francisco, CA 94117, U.S.A. Online address:[email protected]

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Constance Bowman Reid (January 3, 1918 – October 14, 2010) was the author of several biographies of mathematicians and popular books about mathematics. She received several awards for mathematical exposition. She was not a mathematician but came from a mathematical family—one of her sisters was Julia Robinson, and her brother-in-law was Raphael M. Robinson.

Background and education

Reid was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Ralph Bowers Bowman and Helen (Hall) Bowman. One of her younger sisters was the mathematician Julia Robinson. The family moved to Arizona and then to San Diego when the girls were a few years old. In 1950 she married a law student, Neil D. Reid, with whom she had two children, Julia and Stewart.

Reid received a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Diego State University in 1938 and a Master of Education degree from University of California, Berkeley in 1949. She worked as a teacher of English and journalism from 1939 to 1950, and as a free-lance writer since then. She has said, "I always wanted to be a writer, but it took me a

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Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory

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In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they learned to use tools that they had never seen before, live with aluminum shavings in their hair, and get along with supervisors and coworkers from all walks of life.

They also learned that wearing their factory slacks on the street caused men to treat them in a way for which their "dignified schoolteacher-hood" hadn't prepared them. At times charming, hilarious, and incredibly perceptive, Slacks and Calluses brings into focus an overlooked part of the war effort, one that forever changed the way the women were viewed in America.

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Constance Bowman Reid
Constance Bowman Reid has written many highly acclaimed biographies of twentieth-century mathematicians. She lives in San Francisco, CA.

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