mathematicians

The Louisiana Tech University School of Theatre has announced the team for its upcoming production of David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Proof. The announcement, carried by the Lincoln Parish Journal, details the cast and crew taking on the drama, which centres on a young woman's struggle following her mathematician father's death.

A 2011 article on how the ENIAC, one of the first electronic general-purpose computers, was programmed is recirculating among technology readers. The piece, hosted by Columbia University's computing history archive, describes how the machine's operators, many of them women mathematicians, wired and configured it to run calculations. Readers are revisiting the account as a look back at the earliest days of electronic computing.