Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley is the compelling story of one pioneering statistician’s relentless twenty-year effort to promote the status of women in academe and science. Part biography and part microhistory, the book provides the context and background to understand Scott’s masterfulness at using statistics to help solve societal problems. In addition to being one of the first researchers to work at the interface of astronomy and statistics and an early practitioner of statistics using high-speed computers, Scott worked on an impressively broad range of questions in science, from whether cloud seeding actually works to whether ozone depletion causes skin cancer. Later in her career, Scott became swept up in the academic women’s movement. She used her well-developed scientific research skills together with the advocacy skills she had honed, in such activities as raising funds for Martin Luther King Jr. and keeping Free Speech Movement students out of jail, toward policy making that would improve the condition of the academic workforce for women. The book invites the reader into Scott’s universe, a window of inspiration made possible by the fact that she saved and dated every piece of paper that came across her desk.
Amanda L. Golbeck
Equivalence [EPUB ebook]
Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley
Equivalence [EPUB ebook]
Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 634 ● ISBN 9781351751919 ● 出版者 CRC Press ● 发布时间 2017 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 5329248 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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