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Table of Contents: “…Children of the Titans -- Time and energy -- Emmy Noether -- Symmetry, space and time -- Noether's theorem -- Inertia -- Relativity -- Reflections -- Broken symmetry -- Quantum mechanics -- Hidden symmetry of light -- Quarks and leptons.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Marie Skłodowska Curie ; Lise Meitner ; Emmy Noether -- Second generation. Gerty Radnitz Cori ; Irène Joliot-Curie ; Barbara McClintock ; Maria Goeppert Mayer ; Rita Levi-Montalcini ; Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin ; Chien-Shiung Wu ; Gertrude Belle Elion ; Rosalind Elsie Franklin ; Rosalyn Sussman Yalow -- The new generation. …”

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Table of Contents: “…A passion for discovery -- Marie Skłodowska Curie -- Lise Meitner -- Emmy Noether -- Gerty Radnitz Cori -- Irène Joliot-Curie -- Barbara McClintock -- Maria Goeppert Mayer -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Chien-Shiung Wu -- Gertrude Elion -- Rosalind Franklin -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell…”

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Table of Contents: “…Charles Babbage (1792-1871) and Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) -- George Boole (1815-1864) -- Georg Cantor (1845-1918) -- Sofia Kovalevskaia (1850-1891) -- Emmy Noether (1882-1935) -- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) -- Stanislaw Ulam (1909-1984) -- Shiing-Shen Chern (1911- ) -- Alan Turing (1912-1954) -- Julia Bowman Robinson (1919-1985) -- Benoit Mandelbrot (1924- ) -- John H. …”

Table of Contents: “…Lise Meitner -- 11. Emmy Noether -- 12. Grete Hermann -- 13. Chien-Shiung Wu -- 14. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The ancient Greeks and the foundations of mathematics -- Zeno's paradox and the concept of limit -- The mystical mathematics of Hypatia -- The Islamic world and the development of algebra -- Cardano, Abel, Galois, and the solving of equations -- René Descartes and the idea of coordinates -- Pierre de Fermat and the invention of differential calculus -- The great Isaac Newton -- The complex numbers and the fundamental theorem of algebra -- Carl Friedrich Gauss: the prince of mathematics -- Sophie Germain and the attack on Fermat's last problem -- Cauchy and the foundations of analysis -- The prime numbers -- Dirichlet and how to count -- Bernhard Riemann and the geometry of surfaces -- Georg Cantor and the orders of infinity -- The number systems -- Henri Poincaré, child phenomenon -- Sonya Kovalevskaya and the mathematics of mechanics -- Emmy Noether and algebra -- Methods of proof -- Alan Turing and cryptography.…”

Table of Contents: “…Maria Gaetana Agnesi -- Andrea Bertozzi -- Lenore Blum -- Sylvia Bozeman -- Marjorie Lee Browne -- Leone Burton -- Fan King Chung -- Ingrid Daubechies -- Emilie de Breteuil du Chatelet -- Etta Zuber Falconer -- Joan Feigenbaum -- Elizabeth Fennema -- Herta Taussig Freitag -- Sophie Germain -- Evelyn Boyd Granville -- Mary Gray -- Gloria Conyers Hewitt -- Grace Brewster Murray Hopper -- Rhonda Hughes -- Joan Hutchinson -- Hypatia -- Nancy Kopell -- Sofya Korvin-Krukovskaya Kovalevskaya -- Christine Ladd-Franklin -- Anneli Lax -- Gilah Chaya Vanderhoek Leder -- Emma Trotskaya Lehmer -- Ada Augusta Byron Lovelace -- Vivienne Malone-Mayes -- Dusa Waddington McDuff -- Marie-Louise Michelsohn -- Cathleen Synge Morawetz -- Emmy Noether -- Karen Parshall -- Bernadette Perrin-Riou -- Harriet Pollatsek -- Cheryl Praeger -- Mina Spiegel Rees -- Ida Rhodes -- Julia Bowman Robinson -- Judith Roitman -- Mary Ellen Rudin -- Mary Beth Ruskai -- Cora Sadosky -- Alice Turner Schafer -- Doris Wood Schattschneider -- Charlotte Angas Scott -- Marjorie Wikler Senechal -- Lesley Milman Sibner -- Mary Fairfax Grieg Somerville -- Pauline Sperry -- Alicia Boole Stott -- Olga Taussky-Todd -- Jean Taylor -- Chuu-Lian Terng -- Karen Uhlenbeck -- Marion Walter -- Sylvia Young Wiegand -- Grace Chisholm Young.…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: in which I set everything up, so it's probably best not to skip ahead -- Antimatter : in which we learn why there is something rather than nothing -- Entropy : in which we explore where time comes from or whether it just is -- The cosmological principle : in which we learn why it is dark at night -- Emmy Noether : in which we determine what symmetry really means -- Relativity : in which we fail to build an intergalactic ansible -- Gravity : in which we learn why black holes don't last forever -- Replacement : in which we consider the design specifications for a teleportation device -- Spin : in which we investigate why you aren't a sentient cloud of helium and what a spoonful of neutron star would do to you -- Higgs : in which we explore the origin of mass and why physics isn't stamp collecting -- Hidden symmetries : in which objects in the mirror are closer than they appear -- Appendix -- Roadside attraction 1. …”