[FOM] late 19th/early 20th C women in foundations

[John Baldwin]

Sara Uckelman asked:

In the late 19th/early 20th C foundational tradition of Cantor-Dedekind-
Frege-Russell-Hilbert, etc., were there any female contributors?

Here is one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Ladd-Franklin

John T. Baldwin
Professor Emeritus
Department of Mathematics, Statistics,
and Computer Science M/C 249
jbaldwin at uic.edu
851 S. Morgan
Chicago IL
60607

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Sara L. Uckelman <s.l.uckelman at durham.ac.uk>
wrote:

> It's International Women's Day and I'm preparing for tomorrow's seminar
> on formalism; these two things together led me to a question which if
> anyone can answer, it's the collective knowledge of FOM:
>
> In the late 19th/early 20th C foundational tradition of Cantor-Dedekind-
> Frege-Russell-Hilbert, etc., were there any female contributors?  I
> know that post-Godel there are certainly people writing on foundations/
> philosophy of math, but I'm interested in people who were actually
> working at the time foundational questions were being formulated as
> well as being answered.
>
> Thanks,
> -Sara
>
>
> --
> Dr. Sara L. Uckelman
> Department of Philosophy
> Durham University
> https://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/?id=12928
>
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