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Invited address delivered at the First Australasian Math. Convention, Christchurch, May 1978. This article originally appeared in Math. Chron. 10(1981), 31–56.The Intelligencer thanks the author and editors of that journal for permission to reprint it.
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Tee, G.J. The pioneering women mathematicians. The Mathematical Intelligencer 5, 27–36 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03026507
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