Profiles six female mathematicians who overcame unique challenges in their lives to make significant contributions to the study and understanding of math.
In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.
Examines the life of eighteenth-century English astronomer Caroline Herschel, discussing her early bout with typhus, and focusing on her work in astronomy during which she helped her brother William and made independent discoveries of her own.
