Mathematics Pioneer Ingrid Daubechies Has More Barriers to Break

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Mathematics Pioneer Ingrid Daubechies Has More Barriers to Break
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When Ingrid Daubechies became the first tenured female professor of mathematics at Princeton in 1994, she thought the university “should be ashamed” that it took so long

Ingrid Daubechies is a woman of formidable firsts: the first tenured female professor of mathematics at Princeton University , the first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics and the first woman elected president of the International Mathematical Union . But she isn’t particularly interested in planting stakes on mathematical territory or laying claim to laurels.

“I feel successful being part of a bigger whole,” she says. “It’s such a man thing to want your effigy. That...

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