Louise Petrén – A Mathematician Whose Work Waited for a Century to Be Appreciated
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Louise Petrén (Hedvig Louise Beata Petrén-Overton, 1880-1977) was the first Swedish woman to defend her doctoral thesis in mathematics in 1911. It took nearly a hundred years for her thesis to be duly appreciated.References
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