Bridgewater State University
Mathematics Seminar
December 3, 2020, 3:30-4:30 PM

Speaker: Karen Duseau and Vignon Oussa
Title: Transcending struggles: the accomplishments of African-American mathematicians
Abstract

Although African-Americans have received only about 1 percent of all PhDs granted in mathematics in the last decade, the Black mathematicians' experience is not just a story of struggles. It is also a marvelous journey of resilience, successes, excellence, and achievements. Despite the perpetual challenges that African-American mathematicians had to surmount, they have immensely contributed to the subject of Mathematics. In this talk, we will be exploring the accomplishments and struggles of African-American mathematicians and how these experiences have shaped the scientific community.


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